East Durham volunteers save five people in matter of weeks

Three NEAS first responders have had a remarkable few months in the East Durham area. Ian Garrett, Grant Holland and Stephen Gowland raced to the scene of five separate incidents over the last few weeks, and successfully resuscitated patients. Grant (centre of photo), who is NEAS's Community Resusciation Training Officer, said: "It's really quite amazing, and as far as I'm aware a first. To my knowledge we have never had this many resuscitations with first reponders ...