Emergency training by the numbers

If the Guinness World Book of Records wasn’t made aware of last Thursday’s CPR training at Cheney High School, they should have been.

School officials in conjunction with West Plains firefighters conducted an ambitious session to train all 1,400-plus Blackhawk students in what to do should someone have a medical emergency, including how to stop bleeding, at an all-day “Save a Life Day” held in the CHS main gym Sept. 5. Cheney Fire Department firefighter and event organizer Drew Ableman said 24 firefighters from Cheney, Airway Heights and Fairchild Air Force Base departments along with Spokane...