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00:00My name's Gareth Mason, I'm a conductor here in Machynlleth. In my spare time I like to
00:10volunteer for my local community as a community first responder, which involves booking my
00:17available time with the Welsh Ambulance Service, letting them know I'm free if any jobs come
00:22in and they will send me out to jobs involving cardiac arrests, heart attacks, anyone with
00:27breathing difficulties, any seizures, and I will do that for a minimum of 16 hours a
00:34month. So within my community I'm also a guardian for public access defibrillators located in
00:42various public spaces around all of our communities. Transport for Wales have invested in around
00:48200 defibrillators across their network, we're standing next to one now. Part of my role
00:54as a guardian is to go out to these defibs every one or two months, just check they're
01:00working, check the pads are still in date, check the battery's functional, and then we
01:05log that on the circuit, which is a database which the Welsh Ambulance Service have access
01:10to. I've been a community first responder since 2010, during which time I've responded to 16
01:25cardiac arrest patients. Each one of those occasions a defibrillator and CPR has been
01:32required. I found that I wanted to become a community first responder because I saw the
01:38response times in my area were really, really slow, and I wanted to be a bridge between the
01:46gap. If you are community minded and you're passionate about health care in your community,
01:53then I would suggest you look it up, have a read on the Welsh Ambulance website, there is a page
02:00for community first responders, and it will give you all the information you know and some email
02:05addresses to contact if you have any questions.