CANTON, GA — Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services will offer a Stop The Bleed class on Saturday, March 31 at its Fire Training Center in Holly Springs. The class will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Firefighter Sgt. Nate Sullivan will be the instructor for the class. The Stop the Bleed program trains, equips and empowers bystanders to stop life-threatening bleeding in an emergency situation (For more news like this, find your local Patch here. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app; download the free Patch Android app here).

The county is holding its class as part of the National Stop The Bleed Day. The campaign was started in 2015 to "address the most common cause of preventable trauma death in the United States: uncontrolled bleeding," according to its website.