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After suffering a cardiac arrest in Jamberoo on Thursday evening and being revived with a nearby defibrillator David Toohey is a man on a mission.

He has pointed out to the Bugle that very few locals know where the defibrillators in the Kiama LGA are, and in fact most are locked inside after business hours.

Only a very few of them are accessible 24 hours and the locations are not well known.

David said he was lucky the one used on him was in a box accessible 24 hours a day.

He still has not connected with the locals who all pitched in with true community spirit to revive him.

David Toohey, President of Kiama Community Radio is on a mission to make sure more defibrillators are available and more locals can access them, and bothe the defibrillators and signs are in outside locations and know how to operate them in an emergency.

He said he will be meeting with Member for Kiama Gareth Ward later in the week to see what can be done.

David will be talking about his experience on Kiama Community Radio on Tuesday 8 am 1 September .

The Kiama Rotary Club has already donated a defibrillator for the Sebel Harbourside carpark entrance off Shoalhaven Street which was installed in September last year.

This was an initiative of Rotary member Graham Tweedie who has been revived twice with defibrillators.

The defibrillator sits in clear view of School Flat park where many markets and events are held locally.

David would like the sign indicating its a defibrillator location be more prominent and move outside so people can find it easily when urgent-