GNYADA March 2014 Newsletter

Karp Auto Group Donates Life-Saving CPR Units

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units, will allow Rockville Centre 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. “We’re proud to present these important CPR training units to the Rockville Centre Fire Department whose members do so much for this wonderful community,” said David Karp. 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), allow- ing 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 CPR training units worth more than $2 million on which more than one million people have been trained.

Karp Auto Group President and CEO David Karp pre- sented two “Resusci Anne” CPR training units worth $10,000 to the Rockville Centre Fire Department. Karp is a Director of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association (GNYADA) which administers the CPR donations. Rockville Centre Mayor Francis X. Murray (pictured, center) presided over the presentation. Rockville Centre Fire Department Chief John Thorp, III, thanked David Karp, NADA and GNYADA for the dona- tion. The cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training

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