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Photo by Graham Cullen
Marisa Shockley, vice president of Shockley Honda, left, and Al Scrimger Jr., director of dealer services for the Maryland
Automobile Dealers Association, right, present Lt. Blaine Schildt of the Thurmont Guardian Hose Co. with one of four CPR
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Four dummies were hanging out Tuesday morning at Shockley Honda.The Little Anne resuscitation mannequins were presented to Thurmont 's Guardian Hose Co. by the car dealer and the Maryland Automobile Dealers Association. Katie Jones, the state association's public relations coordinator, said the organization finds local fire departments, Boy Scout troops or other community groups that can benefit from some of the 12 CPR dummies available each year. The National Automobile Dealers Association provides the mannequins through the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation. Representing the Guardian Hose Co., Lt. Blaine Schildt, a 23-year veteran technician at Shockley Honda, accepted the Little Anne dummies. These are the first dummies the fire department has owned, Schildt said. All of the previous mannequins have been supplied by the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute. Valued at about $1,000 each, the Little Anne dummies will be used mostly for in-house training, Schildt said. The extra CPR devices will keep people busy during refresher courses for firefighters and training classes for out-of-company participants, he said. "These are new and modern," Al Scrimger Jr. said of the mannequins. Scrimger, the director of dealer services for the Maryland association, was present Tuesday. With about 70 volunteer firefighters, Schildt said the extra CPR bodies will help keep people busy during classes. He said that when he spoke with the fire company's membership, they were amazed by the donation. "We greatly appreciate it," Schildt said. Marisa Shockley, vice president of Shockley Honda, said she picked Guardian Hose Co. because she knew Schildt from the dealership. "I asked him if the department would be interested," she said. Usually someone at a dealership knows of a local need for the dummies, Jones said.
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