Fiaz Ali discovered the device on a roadside in Oldham after North West Ambulance Service issued an urgent appeal to find the 'vital' missing equipment.
Fiaz Ali discovered the device on a roadside in Oldham after North West Ambulance Service issued an urgent appeal to find the"vital" missing equipment.Fiaz Ali spotted the defibrillator by the roadside a mile away from where it disappeared. Pic: North West Ambulance ServiceA life-saving defibrillator that was stolen from an ambulance service at the scene of an incident has been returned thanks to a social media appeal.
North West Ambulance Service issued an urgent appeal to find the"vital" missing equipment after it was taken by an"unknown individual" just minutes into the new year. The ambulance service warned the"expensive" device - which is used in life-threatening emergencies when people are in cardiac arrest - can be"potentially fatal in the wrong hands".But after hundreds of people shared the appeal on social media, the defibrillator was found a roadside about a mile from where it disappeared in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Fiaz Ali, who discovered the device, said he recognised it from the social media appeal and contacted the ambulance service to arrange its return.He said:"When I saw it, I knew it was the one being talked about on social media and so I took it home for safekeeping and then immediately contacted the ambulance service.
"One of my family members was taken ill not so long ago and the ambulance crew used one of these machines and so I knew how important it was.
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