Edina Installs First Outdoor Defibrillator at Pamela Park
The City of Edina has partnered with the Rotary Club of Edina to place life-saving defibrillators in public parks, with the first device now available around the clock at Pamela Park.
Edina's Parks and Recreation Department launched a pilot program in March to install automated external defibrillators — portable devices that can restart a heart during cardiac arrest — at outdoor public spaces. The initiative, developed in partnership with the Rotary Club of Edina, aims to improve emergency response times at high-traffic community locations.
Pamela Park was selected as the first installation site due to its heavy use by residents and visitors alike. The park features outdoor ice rinks, athletic facilities, and walking paths that draw crowds year-round. The new AED station provides 24/7 public access, includes instructions in multiple languages, and is integrated with the city's emergency dispatch system.
"Pamela Park has so many uses — it's used for outdoor ice rinks, used for all sorts of athletics and just general park users walking the paths — and just having this life-saving tool here is awesome for all the people that use this park," a Parks and Recreation representative said during the City Council retreat.
A representative from the Rotary Club of Edina emphasized the organization's commitment to the project. "We know firsthand that AEDs in public places save lives in emergencies, and Pamela Park is highly visited by people from outside of our community and inside of our community where there's lots of activities taking place, and we want to be a part of that solution for saving lives," the representative said.
The pilot project will help city officials evaluate the effectiveness of outdoor AED stations before potentially expanding to other parks and public facilities. No formal votes were taken during the retreat, which served as a planning session for council members.
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“Pamela Park has so many uses—it's used for outdoor ice rinks, used for all sorts of athletics and just general park users walking the paths—and just having this life-saving tool here is awesome for all the people that use this park.”
“We know firsthand that AEDs in public places save lives in emergencies, and Pamela Park is highly visited by people from outside of our community and inside of our community where there's lots of activities taking place, and we want to be a part of that solution for saving lives.”
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[Music] the city's Parks and Recreation Department has partnered with the Rotary Club of Edina on a pilot project to help save lives in the community for many years City facilities have had accessible automated external defibrillators or aeds to empower people to provide medical assistance to sudden Cardiac Arrest victims until paramedics arrive now the city is pting a project to bring aeds to its outdoor locations where the public gathers and exercises pamel park it has so many uses it's used for outdoor ice ranks used for all sorts of Athletics and just general Park users walking the paths and and um just having this life-saving tool here is is awesome for all the people that use this park the Rotary Club of Edina has funded the city's first save station at Pamela Park as one of its signature projects for the year we know firsthand that aeds in public places save lives in emergencies and Pamela Park is highly visited by people from outside of our community and inside of our community where there's lots of activities taking place and we want to be a part of that solution for saving lives the AED was installed in March providing 247 access to anyone in need of life-saving assistance in the park remove clothes from patients chest when activated the device provides easy to understand step-by-step verbal instructions in English and Spanish to help both adults and children additionally it provides real-time reporting to edina's dispatch Center
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