The Drumheller Fire Department received a crash course on their new air pack equipment on Tuesday evening at the Drumheller Fire Hall.
Firefighters from East Coulee, Rosedale and Drumheller gathered at the hall. Steve Eddy of Guillevan International Safety and Industrial Products and Garth Laturnus of Scott Safety were there to familiarize the department with their new air packs.
The Drumheller Mail reported in its October 17 edition that the Drumheller Fire Department had received a donation of $100,000 from Cenovus to purchase 19 new Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA). While the Drumheller department had high quality equipment that was continually certified, the new Scott SCBA Air Paks are state-of-the-art and will provide firefighters with more than 45 minutes of air when battling a fire and buy peace of mind they have the safest, most dependable equipment to allow them to do their job.
The new air packs are carbon fiber rather than aluminum and weigh less. Each pack has a man down alarm that sounds in the event of inactivity. There is a heads-up display, which shows a read out of all important monitoring information for each firefighter’s needs displayed right in the mask. The SCBAs feature Pack Tracker can track where each air pack’s location is on scene.
The 19 packs will be available to firefighters in all three Drumheller halls.
Garth Laturnus of Scott Safety explains some of the features of the Drumheller Fire Department’s new SCBAs to
firefighters from Drumheller, Rosedale and East Coulee Tuesday night.
