Monday marks the first day of a new chapter at the Lodi Fire Department.

One of the newest pieces of equipment at the department is a high-tech EKG. On top of measuring and recording electrical signals from the heart, it provides all this care outside of the emergency room.

"It's like as if we brought the emergency room to your living room," Chief Ken Johnson said.

It's just one of the newest safety measures officially added at the Lodi Fire Department, and it's all part of their new program called Advanced Life Support Services.

"The cardiac medications, the defibrillator that can actually defibrillate somebody in a cardiac event, airway management with advanced airways, like an endotracheal tube for those burn patients or for patients who can't control their airway," Chief Johnson ex

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