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It wasn't a miracle that saved him; it was a defibrillator.

After tossing a handful of beads near the end of the parade route, Brooke collapsed, his heart stopped and he began turning blue.

It was only the quick work of two Mobile Fire-Rescue firemedics with the help of an automated external defibrillator, or AED, that saved the life of the 49-year-old-man.

"There's no doubt about it.

If it hadn't been there, I wouldn't be here talking today," Brooke said.

In an effort to save more lives in Mobile County, the American Heart Association and the Mobile County Sheriff's Office is raising money to outfit patrol cars with the portable units.

"We'd like to have them in every patrol car, but we'll start (installing them) as they become available and work our way from the farthest out," Sheriff Sam Cochran said.

With about 1,200 square miles - much of it rural - of Mobile County to patrol, deputies can find themselves the first responders to medical calls in areas that may take an ambulance a long time to find, Cochran said.

"These things are so successful if you can have them in the right place at the right time," Cochran said.

"We...