CPR Training

The Tinley Park Fire Department is offering CPR/AED classes through the American Heart Association. The in-person class is limited to eight students and is a three-hour class. Classes are held on the third Saturday of each month, by appointment only.

The class begins at 9 a.m. The cost is $45. Registration and payment due by the end of the day Wednesday prior.

Mail or drop off the the completed CPR/AED Certification Registration form and the appropriate payment, either a check made payable to the "Tinley Park Fire Department" or exact cash. Mail or drop off everything to:

Tinley Park Fire Department
CPR/AED Certification
17355 S. 68th Court
Tinley Park, IL  60477

Please note: If you opt to mail in your payment, you must include the name of the person taking the class and the date of the CPR class.

After receipt of the above documentation, you will receive an email to confirm an appointment date. Scheduling will be based on the availability at the time of receipt.

Pictured below is the death mask of a young woman who drowned in the River Seine in the 1880s. As was customary in those days, her corpse was put on display in the Paris mortuary in the hope that someone might recognize her and claim her body.

he pathologist on duty became entranced by the girl with the enigmatic half-smile, and so he commissioned a plaster cast made of her face. This mask was replicated many times over. She became known as “L’Inconnue de la Seine,” or “The Unknown Woman of the Seine.” In 1955, a toy maker named Asmund Laerdal created what we now know as the CPR doll.

Asmund wanted his mannequin to have a natural appearance. Remembering a mask on the wall of his grandparents’ house many years earlier, he decided that the L’Inconnue de la Seine would become the face of Resusci Anne.

o you see, this anonymous woman who drowned in the Nineteenth Century is responsible for saving many, many lives the world over. It is said that she has the most kissed face of all time.