If This CPR iPhone App Doesn’t Save Lives, Well, We’re Doomed [IPhone Apps]

The Fire Department app connects those trained in CPR with people who need it, similar to your colleagues who’ve put their hands up to be the building’s first-aid volunteers. Using the iPhone’s GPS, it alerts trained users of nearby casualties.

Once you choose to be tracked by the app, you basically sign over your permission to be notified when a reported emergency is near you. The app knows of said emergency because it intercepts data from 911 calls, figuring that a passerby trained in CPR is likely to be of assistance than an ambulance miles away.

Users are alerted by a push notification, a good way to also let you know if there are any defibrillators nearby. It’s a type of apps which makes a variety of sense, and in reality makes you realize just how far advanced technology-and community-has come. [ iTunes via TechCrunch ]

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