Longboat Key Fire Chief Paul Dezzi is particularly proud of one Longboat Key Fire Rescue statistic: a 67% cardiac arrest survival rate in 2025.
“Why is that? It’s because of the training the guys are going through, it’s the personnel that we have, and it’s the equipment that our tax dollars buy for us,” Dezzi said. “That’s this past year, and that will fluctuate depending on the number of patients we have with cardiac arrest, but that means we had four people that were dead when we got there, and they went home alive.”
Although Longboat Key is a small sample size, a 67% cardiac arrest survival rate is notably high. According to American Red Cross, the out-of-hospital national average cardiac arrest survival rate is just 10%…