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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The rescue tender carries all the miscellaneous and other quick access gear the team needs. Sometimes if the team needs to reach a more remote area that the big truck cannot reach, they will throw some gear on the rescue tender and drive in with it. The officer's side of the truck is mostly for RIT gear.



The first compartment on the officers side carries all their RIT equipment (tools, rope, chargers, batteries). The compartment over the wheel carries rope rescue equipment.



The front compartment on the driver's side has the driver's PPE and SCBA. The rest of comparments on the driver's side carries forcible entry tools (saws, hand tools) and a cutting torch.



In the rear of the box, there is a slide out shelf that carries a rebreather and a litter basket with wheels. Also another interesting feature is even though the unit has a crew cab, the back seats have been removed and replaced with a rack for the firefighter to carry his/her gear bags.The FF's carry a lot of different protective gear as well as their personal equipment.