{"id":44070,"date":"2025-11-18T21:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44070\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:01:21","slug":"fdny-brings-lifesaving-stop-the-bleeding-training-to-brownsville-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44070\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY brings lifesaving \u2018Stop the Bleeding\u2019 training to Brownsville \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An FDNY official demonstrates how to control severe bleeding as residents follow along during the department\u2019s first annual \u201cStop the Bleeding\u201d training in Brownsville.<\/p>\n

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

A medical emergency or shooting can unfold without warning \u2014 and as paramedic response times grow longer<\/a>, New Yorkers are being urged to step in. On Tuesday, Nov. 18, the FDNY brought lifesaving training directly to Brownsville\u2019s Van Dyke Community Center, hosting its first annual \u201cStop the Bleeding\u201d campaign to prepare residents to act before help arrives.<\/p>\n

The campaign is designed to help victims suffering from cardiac events or gunshot wounds receive immediate aid.\n<\/p>\n

FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said the department is \u201cempowered by giving people something to do in an emergency, rather than just standing around when you see someone in need.\u201d He added that they accomplish this by teaching life-saving skills \u201cwith confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLeading this is critical,\u201d he said, \u201cand it reflects our mission of protecting lives by equipping communities tools to act before health arise.\u201d
\n\"\"FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker speaks to residents at the \u201cStop the Bleeding\u201d event in Brownsville, urging the community to step in and save lives during emergencies.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n

Participants received a brief presentation before beginning hands-on training. They practiced applying a tourniquet to control bleeding from an artery.<\/p>\n

Even though shootings in Brownsville\u2019s 73rd Precinct are down by more than 40% this year (as of Nov. 9), recent NYPD data<\/a> shows felony assaults are up nearly 27% year to date \u2014 723 incidents so far, compared with 571 in the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n

\"\"Community members learn how to apply tourniquets and other lifesaving techniques at a new FDNY training event.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell \"\"With emergency response times growing longer, FDNY trains neighbors to save lives before help arrives.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

Against that backdrop, Brownsville In Violence Out<\/a>\u2019s program director, Dushoun Almond, said the program is especially meaningful for his group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis initiative means a lot to us because it took the fact things that take place in our communities are mostly, I hate to say it, gunshots, knobs, stabbings \u2014 things that cause you to bleed,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can just imagine, if people had the knowledge on stopping the bleed, how many lives they could save. So for us, it\u2019s tremendous for everybody to get this training. It\u2019s what matters most to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organizers say they hope the training stays with participants, but that it won\u2019t be needed anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An FDNY official demonstrates how to control severe bleeding as residents follow along during the department\u2019s first annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25338,98,100,99,6616,25339,194,545,9,24,12,370,63,103,104,25340,3301],"class_list":["post-44070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-73rd-precinct","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brownsville","tag-brownsville-in-violence-out","tag-fdny","tag-fire","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-stop-the-bleeding","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}