Clarke County Fire & Rescue offers a FREE Stop the Bleed Class at 7 p.m. Monday, May 20, at the Clarke County Recreation Center in Chet Hobert Park located at 225 Al Smith Circle, Berryville. Register via email to sreynolds@clarkecounty.gov.

Stop the Bleed is a national, grassroots awareness campaign and call-to-action designed to train, equip, and empower individuals to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives. Knowing how to control bleeding caused by serious injury is important for everyone, especially parents and caregivers.

Stop the Bleed certified instructor Shawn Reynolds is a professional Firefighter/AEMT for Clarke County who has worked with government agencies here and abroad, teaching Tactical Medicine in permissive and non-permissive environments. He is an NAEMT Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) instructor, Tier 3 Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) medic/corpsman instructor, one of a handful of International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) High Threat instructors in the Mid-Atlantic region, and a firearms and medical instructor for Paramount Tactical.