Earlier this year, the legislature passed a bill requiring middle and high schools to have automated external defibrillators.

House Bill 331 also requires schools to have a plan in place to use the life saving machine, which is often called an aid.

Tate's Greek High School in Lexington has eight of them.

It's also the first school to receive the heart safe designation in Kentucky.

This means that the staff is trained to respond to a cardiac arrest event in case of an emergency.

On Tuesday, staff participated in a drill conducted by Kentucky Children's Hospital to see if they were prepared to use them in case of a cardiac event.

Statistics have shown that if a school has a plan and they are able to get the aid placed in the school as opposed to an empty chair, there is a drastic difference in when a chance of survival.

So it's really important that they know exactly what they're doing and can do it as fast as possible.

Or the district has provided us with aides inside the building, which is wonderful.

To outside the building, the trainer has one.

So we have them in place throughout the building so you don't have to go too far.

That's very important.

Wherever there is a situation, you don't want it to travel too far to get the aid.

We have an alert system that every teacher has in their classrooms that can alert the front office to an emergency.

A horn sounds.

It lets everyone in the front office know something's up.

Then a radio call goes out to all administration and law enforcement.

They can grab the aid on their way to the situation.

The CPR trained cardiac response team is notified through text message.

They come.

And so you have everybody you need hopefully within a matter of a minute and a half.

Our goal is to have the aid to the victim in a shot delivered with the 3 minutes, because with every minute that passes, the chance of survival decreases by 10%.

So it's critical that the aid get to the side and shock is administered as soon as possible.

And so when you saw that quick response, that eager response and desire for training, it's because their hearts are in the right place and they they love that.

The kids have taken care.

Good program.

Indeed.

UK officials said their short term goal is that all schools in Fayette County will have the heart safe designation.

Their long term goal is that every school in the state will receive the heart safe designation.