Alpharetta Fire wants you to download PulsePoint app [Video]

The Alpharetta Fire Department is encouraging as many people as possible to download an app designed to send an alert when someone is experiencing a heart attack or needs CPR. 

The app is called PulsePoint and, according to Alpharetta Fire, you don’t need to be a medical expert to use it. 

PulsePoint alerts users when there is someone having a cardiac emergency in the area, so they can respond and possibly help save a life. It also shows the location of nearby automated external defibrillators (AEDs), which can potentially save the life of someone having a heart attack. 

Tim Ade is one of those people. The terrifying moment happened to him at the Windward Lake Club in Alpharetta in November of last year. 

“I had a cardiac arrest and I flatlined more than once between then and when I got to the hospital,” Ade said. “I was playing paddle ball with a bunch of my …