Cardiac arrest happens fast. Most of the time, it happens at home. We’re building a city where neighbors save neighbors before time runs out.
When Seconds Decide Everything
70 to 80% of cardiac arrests don’t happen at hospitals or stadiums. They happen in living rooms, kitchens, and driveways across McKinney.
Every minute without CPR and an AED drops survival by 10%. The average ambulance takes about seven minutes to arrive. By then, the chances are already cut in half.
Families lose people they shouldn’t. Communities feel the weight of preventable loss.
For two years, we’ve been rewriting the playbook on cardiac arrest. Better dispatch. Better CPR. AEDs in 88 police cars. The result? City-wide survival jumped from 10% to nearly 47% in 2025.
We’re not done. Seattle leads the country at 50%. We believe McKinney can be next.
To get there, we need you.
1. Become a Neighborhood Hero Sign up, get trained, and receive an AED to keep at home or in your car. When a cardiac arrest happens near you, our app alerts you. There’s no obligation to respond. If you can, you go. If you can’t, you decline. Texas Good Samaritan laws have your back.
2. Sponsor an AED Put a life-saving device in your business, lobby, or public space. We handle the training, the network monitoring, and the maintenance. You get the peace of mind, and your community gets a faster response.
3. Donate Help us put AEDs in the hands of trained heroes who can’t afford one. Every device funded shrinks the gap between cardiac arrest and survival.
A neighbor goes into cardiac arrest three houses down. Help is seven minutes away. The clock runs out before it ever arrives.
A father driving through McKinney with his son collapses on 380/University Dr. A trained dispatcher walks the son through CPR. Officers arrive in four minutes with an AED. Today, that father is alive and home.(This actually happened in 2025.)
You don’t need a uniform to save a life. You need training, an AED, and the willingness to show up when it counts. McKinney is closer than ever to becoming a 4-Minute City. The last piece is you