The City of Bend’s police department is encouraging people to not only get CPR training but also to invest in a defibrillator as well. 

At a press conference Monday, EMS Program manager Tom Wright talked about how having a defibrillator on site at Healing Reins Therapeutic Riding center when volunteer Bill Butner had a heart attack saved his life and how the staff and volunteers were able to get his heart restarted before the ambulance arrived.