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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Deep Resources

Many fire departments, rescue squads and emergency service responders are providing many more specialized services, i.e., deep resources, than a few years ago. Consequently, many modern fire, rescue and hazmat teams are adding highly specialized equipment to their response inventories. In some cases, the delivery apparatus is changing to better meet the needs of the operating crews. For example, a trend has emerged in fire-apparatus design where smaller firefighting pump modules are losing popularity in favor of ever-increasing equipment-stowage capacity. In many areas the rise of the rescue pumper illustrates the early manifestation of this ...

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