When a family member, a loved one or a friend shows the signs of cardiac arrest, how important are a minute?

"For every minute that someone goes without CPR their chance of survival goes down 10 percent,” said Southeast Community CPR trainer Tony Herring. “If it takes us 10 minutes to get there, their percentage goes to 0 "

That's why first responders and southeast community training representatives are teaming up to educate friends and family members. in the event that a loved one slips into cardiac arrest.

"Every time I go to a heart attack,“ says Hartford fire and rescue's Libby Badigton. “ or cardiac arrest very infrequently do we actually get people on the scene who know how to do CPR and how to do it effectively. "

The group is looking to raise funding and a location for a massive friends and family CPR training session to spread the knowledge in order to increase survival rates.