Students at Socastee Middle School in Horry County, S.C. received training from the Myrtle Beach Fire Department to gain and practice life-saving skills. Students learned how to help someone who is choking, how to do proper chest compressions and how to find and use a defibrillator.
“We’re usually doing a lot more activities or doing health, but today we got a curveball, and we had to do CPR which was fun today,” said Max Duke, a seventh grader.
Duke is part of the first half of Socastee Middle School students who received the training in one period of gym class. The other half will be trained next semester.
Duke said the training worked to give him a better sense of what to do in the case of an emergency.