Thanks to Ernie's Towing for providing us with vehicles to train with this past week. Our rookies, plus a student shadowing us for the day, got to learn how to operate the jaws and see how quickly and smoothly we can rescue a victim trapped in a vehicle. Watch how this minivan is completely opened up.
Playground fire at Garfield School
Pumper-1 extinguished a playground fire at Garfield School.
Read MoreYelling for help
Thanks to all the teachers for handling those small people, looks a lot harder than...
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Training firefighters on the tower truck.
Read MoreWearing our boots
Yesterday we hosted an afternoon of training with two members of City Council and the Safety Director. We invited the Mayor, and all of city council, but unfortunately the turnout was smaller than we hoped. But the training was successful, and it was encouraging to have them walk around in our boots for a couple hours. The Morning Journal and Chronicle reporters both had an eye-opening experience as well and wrote good stories on the training.
Issue 5 Fun!draiser
We held a fundraiser to support Issue 5, a fire levy on the ballot in November 2016. Thank you to all who showed your support!
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