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    Heroes

    Dec 12, 2020 5 minutes
    BY AMY GUNIA

    IN NOVEMBER 2019, LUKE SUMMERSCALES AND JESSICA JACOBS WERE IN A REMOTE MOUNTAIN RANGE OF NEW SOUTH WALES, fighting some of the worst bushfires on record in Australia, when another disaster struck: a fellow firefighter collapsed from a heart attack. The nearest ambulance was more than an hour away and the terrain was too steep for a rescue helicopter to land, so the pair started doing CPR on 53-year-old John Kennedy.

    Fires burning around them, Summerscales and Jacobs struggled to get defibrillator pads to stick to Kennedy’s chest. They performed CPR for 45 minutes before Kennedy was able to breathe on his own.

    “We lost him three times, but we got him back every time,” Jacobs says. “We’re so lucky to have been able to really make a difference.”

    In November 2020, the Country Fire Authority, a fire-management organization,

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