Smithtown Kia Owner Presents Life-Saving CPR Unit to St. James Fire Department

Smithtown Kia president and CEO Steve Cannata recently presented a Resusci Anne CPR training unit to the St. James Fire Department at Smithtown Kia.

Cannata is a Board Member of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association (GNYADA) which administers the CPR donations. Smithtown Town Supervisor Patrick Vecchio presided over the presentation.  Last December, Cannata donated a CPR unit to the Nissequogue Fire Department.

 St. James Fire Department Chief Ryan Davis thanked Cannata, Smithtown Kia, NADA and GNYADA for the donation. The cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training unit, worth more than $4,000, will allow St. James Fire Department personnel to train area residents on the correct way to provide CPR.  When properly administered, CPR helps increase the survival rate of someone suffering from sudden cardiac arrest.

The donation is part of the National Automobile Dealers Association’s community outreach program.  NADA’s program is administered locally by GNYADA.  The units allow personnel to train area residents on the correct way to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), allowing those trained to save the lives of countless people who suffer heart attacks and are in need of immediate attention.

Nationwide, since 1975, franchised automobile dealers have donated thousands of manikins worth more than $2 million on which more than one million people have been trained.