Mark Ducie - Cumbria Fire Service

The Barrow area is now approaching having 40 defibrillators available to the general public to use if someone suffers cardiac arrest.

That is due to the response to the Barrow Defibrillators Appeal and the appeal’s secretary and treasurer, Mark Ducie, has had his work rewarded by being given the Barrow Rotary Club’s Community and Vocational award for his service to the community. Picture shows Mark receiving the award from President Keith.

Mark told club members the most recent additions were at the Hawcoat and Griffin community centres, Askam Village School and Dalton United football club’s Railway Meadow ground.

He said he was “most pleased” that in the previous three weeks there had been three uses of the equipment. “You can’t put a price on life,” he said.

Mark said the defibrillator appeal “had never stopped with a steady flow of money” coming in.

Mark has worked to get good prices for the cost of the defibrillators and their cabinets, his success bringing calls from further afield. He said he had been involved with a defibrillator at Wetherall, near Carlisle, and he had even had inquiries for help and assistance from Kent.