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"Stop the Bleeding" provides needed kits to Jonesboro first responders

Jonesboro Police Department

Jonesboro’s first responders are now the recipients of advanced first aid kits, which all include tourniquets.  After an 8-hour course at the Arkansas Fire Academy in Jonesboro, 42 kits were distributed. 

Dr. Spencer Guinn has advocated for tourniquets to be in the hands of all first responders in the state, as well as citizens.  He tells why this would be important:

The tourniquet kits cost 100-dollars each and his immediate goal is to get over two-thousand tourniquets for every first responder in northeast Arkansas.   Over eleven-thousand kits would be needed for first responders statewide.  Guinn says having tourniquets on hand makes the difference between life and death for those who are severely wounded:

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The campaign that is taking place in Arkansas is called “Stop the Bleeding” and it is being run through the St. Bernard’s Development Foundation.  The Jonesboro Rotary Club provided grants for the 42 kits that were handed out yesterday.    

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.