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21 October, 2025
Halls Gap ready to respond to cardiac events
A campaign to enhance first aid skills in the community and a new Automated External Defibrillator facility have boosted Halls Gap’s capacity to deal with cardiac arrest incidents. A total of 157 Halls Gap community members learnt to Call, Push, Shock, a huge 32 per cent of the town’s population, on the way to the town graduating as a Heart Safe Communities through an Ambulance Victoria and Heart Foundation initiative, while a new 24/7 publicly accessible AED was registered at MacKenzie Falls, bringing the total number of registered AEDs in the community to 10.
HG AMBOS 01 - Ambulance Victoria's Halls Gap branch has trained 157 people in the town as part of a cardiac arrest campaign in conjunction with The Heart Foundation. AV members with a new automated external defibrillator at MacKenzie Falls from left: Braeden Hyland, Mia Whytecross, Trish Hayes, Brendan Auld and Tony Murrell.
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