Avive and Cambridge Fire Department Join Together for Community CPR/AED Training - Advancing Cambridge's Vision to Become a 4-Minute Community

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Avive Solutions, Inc. and the Cambridge, Massachusetts Fire Department are partnering to bring a CPR and AED (automated external defibrillator) training event to the Smith Campus Center in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday September 17, 2026, aiming to train members of the general public on lifesaving skills. The free event is a cornerstone of a broader, ongoing partnership between Avive and Cambridge Fire to build a 4 Minute Community™ - a program where trained volunteers can be dispatched with their Avive Connect AED® to a scene within the critical first four minutes of a cardiac emergency, closing the gap for when professional responders arrive.

The free training will take place at the Smith Campus Center in Harvard Square, Cambridge in coordination with CrimsonEMS and ProEMS- extending the reach of Cambridge's community-wide preparedness efforts to one of the city's largest populations: students, visitors, faculty, and staff.

Event Details

• What: Community CPR/AED Training Day
• Where: Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
• When: Thursday September 17, 2026, starting at 10:00 a.m.
• Who: general public, students, faculty, and staff
• Training Equipment: 25 Avive Connect AEDs and CPR manikins, provided by Avive Solutions
• Support: Cambridge Fire Department, CrimsonEMS, ProEMS

Why 4 Minutes Matters

The Avive 4 Minute Community Program is a groundbreaking initiative that transforms communities into proactive cardiac emergency response networks. By using historical sudden cardiac arrest data to strategically place Avive Connect AEDs with trained citizen volunteers - known as Cardiac Arrest Rapid Engagement (CARE) team members - the program creates a seamless bridge between bystander intervention and professional emergency response. The program has produced multiple lifesaving saves across the country and stands as a model for what's possible when a community decides that saving a life is everyone's responsibility.

A Community-Wide Strategy

Cambridge Fire Department's push to become a 4 Minute Community centers on training as many residents as possible, across workplaces, neighborhoods, schools, and now in partnership with Avive. With 50 Avive AEDs already deployed by Cambridge Fire and 326 more installed by MIT across its campus, nearly 380 connected devices are already in place citywide - putting these lifesaving tools within quick reach of students, faculty, staff, visitors, and the community's first responders alike. Expanding Avive's AED network further into the broader community would build on this foundation and reinforce the groundwork the city's universities have already laid. Training a population this large in a single day is designed to dramatically- and almost overnight - increase the number of prepared, potential responders across the city.

Avive Solutions is supplying 25 Avive AEDs and CPR manikins that make hands-on, simultaneous instruction possible for large groups of participants. The equipment lets participants practice recognizing cardiac arrest, beginning compressions, and operating an AED in a simulated emergency, rather than learning the steps only in theory.

Representatives from Cambridge Fire, CrimsonEMS and ProEMS will be on site throughout the event to support instruction and answer questions, reinforcing the coordination between campus responders and the city's fire and rescue services that a true 4 Minute Community depends on.

Looking Ahead

This training day is one piece of a larger, ongoing effort between Avive Solutions and Cambridge Fire Department to expand CPR and AED education throughout Cambridge - in schools, businesses, and public spaces - with the goal of making trained bystanders and ready AEDs a normal, expected part of everyday life in the city. Organizers say events like this one are meant to build momentum toward that citywide goal, not stand alone as a single day of training.

About Avive Solutions

Avive Solutions, Inc. is a Brisbane, CA-based company dedicated to developing state-of-the-art Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) designed to be accessible, intuitive, and effective in saving lives during Sudden Cardiac Arrest emergencies. Avive's mission is to ensure that lifesaving AED technology is available in every community across the nation. Learn more at avive.life.

Media Contacts:

Mackenzie Kirk
Content Marketing Manager, Avive Solutions
[email protected] 

Jeremy Warnick
Director of Media Relations, City of Cambridge
[email protected]

SOURCE Avive Solutions, Inc.