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Friday, November 20, 2009

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The reason that EMS was so quickly accepted was because of Johnny and Roy, said one compressed-air foam instructor. “We need a television program about Class A foam and CAFS.” Emergency and its lead characters, paramedics Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto, helped raise the public’s awareness of EMS in the early 1970s. Maybe there should be a televsion program about firefighters using foam to extinguish fires. When residents know the benefits of fighting fires with Class A foam, maybe they will buy the equipment for the fire department — but would firefighters use it? Twenty years ago, the ...

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