Fire District 3 Chief Steve Wrightson and his crew have made plenty of educational rounds to local high schools to teach the fundamentals of CPR, but they’d never visited a middle school.
Last week, though, members of District 3 went to Chief Umtuch Middle School in Battle Ground for a few hours to teach seventh- and eighth-graders the basics of hands-only CPR. The session was the final part of a three-week health and fitness campaign at the school. During the CPR training, students were given the opportunity to practice chest compressions on body dummies.
The idea of bringing the training to Chief Umtuch was brought up by health and fitness teachers Blake Bowers, Guy Brown and Tami Blackman.