Los Angeles County Fire Dept

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Thank you very much for the compartment shots - always curious what they carried and how it was laid out. Did the USAR tender carry additional different tools, or just a smaller variety of what is carried on the big truck? Is there any chance that you have compartment shots of the tender and / or the heavy wrecker? (sorry, its an addiction....)



For guys from California and west coast, do the hydraulic "speed shores" get alot of use in actual trench incidents? I see the rig also carries Paratech struts - just curious because it seems the east coast is almost entirely Paratech or ART struts. Hydraulic shores are fast, but somewhat limited (at least in my experience) when the trench walls are all out of whack after a collapse.



Thanks again for the photos - great shots of the apparatus and the event.

Gary

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Gary - Unfortunately nobody was around the rescue tender and the compartments were closed (I was curious myself).



The Heavy Rescue (i.e. really big wrecker) had a few compartments open, but I didn't get any shots. The couple that I saw open had a lot of heavy chains with hooks hanging inside. It also looked like they might have some lifting bags, too.