{"id":309292,"date":"2026-10-18T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309292\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:58:11","slug":"city-of-pittsburgh-unveils-the-first-outdoor-public-aed-downtown-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309292\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Pittsburgh unveils the first outdoor, public AED downtown \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 City officials, emergency medical leaders and community partners gathered Oct. 14, at Frankie Pace Park to dedicate Pittsburgh\u2019s first outdoor, 24-hour publicly accessible automated external defibrillator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The installation honors the legacy of the Freedom House Ambulance Service and its founding member, John Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The outdoor SaveStation Tower housing a ZOLL AED three is located at 901 Centre Avenue. City officials recognize the surrounding area as the birthplace of modern emergency medical services in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Freedom House Ambulance Service was founded in the Hill District in 1967, pioneering advanced prehospital emergency care and helping establish a model for modern emergency medical services across the United States. Pittsburgh EMS has since revived the Freedom House name through its EMT Training Academy to train new generations of first responders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The event featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the unveiling of the SaveStation Tower and public demonstrations showing how bystanders can access the ZOLL AED three and perform hands-on CPR during a cardiac emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 City officials, emergency medical leaders and community partners gathered Oct. 14, at Frankie Pace Park to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85552,126679,126678,73,75,74,126680],"class_list":["post-309292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aed","tag-john-moon-aed","tag-outdoor-aed","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-outdoor-aed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}