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How does your dept. handle MVA's? Do you have a rescue truck or do you just use your engine? If you have a rescue, is it light, medium, or heavy? What kind of equpment do you have on it? My dept. runs a medium duty rescue that has an onboard PTO generator that runs pre connected extrication equipment, a 20 ft. telescoping light tower, full sets of lift bags and rams, hand tools, various saws and scene lighting. As well as other tools and water rescue equipment.

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We respond with these 2 truck
This truck has gen set,casscade system, 2 complete set of air bags, jaws and cutters both run off the back along with anthor cutter and an omni tool run off the officers sides, hand tools and enough cribbing to build a house.And an engine

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Those are some real nice lookin trucks ya got there

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We are an outlaying rule array, for most signal vehicle accidents we respond with a light rescue and our primary pumper (engine), for anything more then a singe vehicle MVA we response two light rescues and up to 3 pumpers, as we don’t have are own heavy hydraulics so we relay upon anther fire department fore heavy’s, thro an automatic aid agreement for costs.

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mva with minor injury, out of the roadway, meet pd, gets ambulance only
mva in roadway, gets ambulance and heavy rescue
mva w/ entrapment, ejection, on fire, or rollover, gets ambulance, heavy rescue, engine company, chief

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We use a light rescue and our engine for most mva's.

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My dept. handles MVA's. We use our engine, but we do have a equipment van. Our Engine has a combo tool, and our van has the jaws. If its a water rescue, we take our equipment van, and our fast attack brush truck. But we are a small town volunteer fire department.

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