Mmm, but thanks, you've got me thinking ...... maybe we should look into some insurance
As a Community First Responder team through the ambulance service you will have insurance.
The advantage a Community First Responder team has over defibs in a community is that when a 999 call goes in a CFR team is alerted so they go to the incident. Hopefully more than one person attends so you can share CPR, you can support relatives, gather info for ambulance crew....
You are called to incidents where someone has breathing problems so they may not be in cardiac arrest but it is very comforting to people to have someone with them whilst waiting for an ambulance and it maybe that they need oxygen which CFR are trained to give.
Nothing against public defibs and if you don't go down the first responder route then please go down this one.
However, say someone calls 999 because they have breathing difficulties, etc and they are on their own how are they going to get the defib? Even if someone is with them, the other person might not drive, might not want to go for defib. Do you have holiday makers? How do they find defibs in the dark in the early hours?