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Teen's death inspires community effort to get life-saving AEDs into schools
Elizabeth McMillan
Published: Jan 04, 2020
Updated: Jan 04, 2020
CBC News
Excerpt
The sudden death last fall of a 15-year-old athlete and volunteer firefighter from Lantz, N.S., has prompted fundraising efforts in his honour aimed at outfitting area schools with life-saving automated external defibrillators.
Braeden Bannister's family still doesn't know what exactly caused him to collapse and die following an evening hunting trip Nov. 1, but they suspect it was a cardiac arrest.
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