With a cardiac emergency drill performed at the Porter County Administration Building Wednesday morning, the Porter County Health Department became the first Heart Safe health department in Indiana.

A little after 10 a.m. the mock emergency began on a dummy lying just inside the double doors to the commissioners chambers. “Someone grab an AED! We need an AED!” shouted Zac Mago Foundation founder Teresa Mago, as she asked for an automated external defibrillator.

“Nobody touch the patient!” commanded Porter County Emergency Preparedness Coordinator John Pisowicz.

“Did someone call 911?” asked County Councilman Greg Simms, D-3rd. Mago began chest compressions while Pisowicz applied defibrillator patches from the AED kit to the dummy’s chest.

A health department staffer in pink scrubs stoo

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