West Thurston Regional Fire Authority celebrated a life saved Friday by passing around heart pins to put on their shirts and gathering to pose for a picture. They publicized the celebration on their Facebook page and also took the time to tell the public about the extensive opportunities West Thurston Fire offers to learn about CPR. They plugged the educational opportunities for one life-saving reason: the casual bystander is commonly the first line of defense in a cardiac arrest incident. And it was a casual bystander who deserves a share of the credit for saving the man’s life, Captain and EMS officer Lanette Dyer says. “We’re not really anything at the end of the day if we don’t have a patient who has already had good CPR done on them,” Dyer said. “All the fancy equipment, all the drugs and all the AED in the world doesn’t mean anything if good CPR wasn’t done by citizens who were trying to make a difference.”