 Tragedy struck here in May when 28-year-old Gary Chris Gerald died suddenly while coaching a Little League team here at Stumbo Park in Allen. Now some believe that Gerald's passing might have been prevented with the appropriate tool on site. Today the Floyd County Fiscal Court took a first step in obtaining that tool. We had a young man that had, it was a tragic, we had a loss of life at one of our parks. He was a 28-year-old and he was a coach and it affected our community quite badly. And so some of the people had suggested to me is there a way because we had doctors there and had nurses and so forth. But something is my understanding that if they had some type of a defibrillator that could have maybe shocked the heart back that we might have been able to save him. During today's regularly scheduled meeting, the court passed a resolution seeking grant money from the Department of Homeland Security for the purchase of a defibrillator to be kept at the park. During the summer, a lot of times the ball feels, you know, the activities, you're dealing with heat, exhaustion and also due to the response time of some ambulances and stuff. If we've got one on site, it could possibly mean saving of a person's life. So, you know, we can't put a price on a person's life and it would be nice to have one at every ball field. They're not that expensive really. Some of the fire departments in the county, I know we have one at David, so some do have and some don't. But this is something we really need to try to help push and see that everybody does have one. Now there is no guarantee that the Fiscal Court will be granted those funds from Homeland Security. However, Judge Executive Ben Hale says that they have had positive relations with Homeland Security in the past and he's hopeful for a good outcome. Reporting from Floyd County for EKB News, I'm Jackson Ladder.