HEARTSafe designations are bestowed upon municipalities for community-wide efforts to meet the program's requirements for CPR training, availability of automated external defibrillators and pre-hospital advanced life support.

Participating in the presentation were (from left) Gary St. Amand of the DPH, First Selectman Mark Lyon, Susan Wallace-Wyant, chief of operations for the Washington Ambulance Association; EMT Steve Wright, MRT Kara Linder, EMT Gail Covillion, MRT Butch Wyant, EMT Megan Woodruff, and Cal Shropshire, MRT, 2nd lieutenant with the Washington Fire Department. (O'Brien photo)