GWGVFD APPARATUS

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	Our primary firefighting rig at Station 8 is Engine 81. It's an Emergency One Freightliner 1500 GPM Triple Combination Pumper with a 750 gallon water tank. E-81 also carries a 50 gallon inboard foam system, a Hurst rescue tool system, and a Bullard thermal imager. The engine is also fully equipped with ALS (paramedic) gear and, when a paramedic is assigned as a member of its minimum of three firefighters, the unit is known as Medic Engine 81. A similarly equipped Freightliner, Engine 281, is quartered at Station 28.
	Our back-up engine is Engine 82. It's a Seagrave 1500 GPM Triple Combination Pumper with a 750 gallon tank and a 50 gallon inboard foam system. It carries a Hurst rescue tool system and an AED (automatic electronic defibrulator). E-82 can be upgraded to full ALS status.
	Tower 8 is our truck company. It's a Simon Duplex/LTI 85 foot all-steel ladder tower, with a 1500 GPM waterway and multiple discharge from the tower platform. Tower 8 carries a Bullard thermal imager. The rig is equipped with an AED and is upgradeable to full ALS status. It's also equipped with a Bullard Thermal Imager.
	Ambulance 87 is one of two Basic Life Support (BLS) emergency medical service units quartered at Station 8. The second is Ambulance 88. We also have a spare, identified as Ambulance 86. All are Freightliner/Wheel Coach Medical Attack Vehicles. While all three are fully equipped BLS transport units, A88 also carries full advanced life support equipment. If a paramedic is assigned it can run as Medic 88. We also use Freighliners for our Advanced Life Support (ALS) unit, Medic 89, which is quartered at Station 8 and Ambulance 289, which is quartered at Station 28.
	Our command vehicle is Car 84. It's a Ford Custom Command Vehicle that has two radios, (front and back), a cellular phone, a computer with pre-plans and work space. It also carries an AED.
	Utility 8 is one of our utility trucks. (The other, unpictured, is Utility 28). U8 is a Chevy Mechanics vehicle equipped with a generator, tools, lighting and other equipment for our fleet maintenance team to perform many repairs in the field. It can also be equipped with a snow plow.
	Our brush truck is Brush 85 and is quartered at Station 8. It's a 2001 Ford 4 wheel drive brush unit with a 150 gallon tank, multiple attack lines, and an "on the move" ground sprayer system. It's AED-equipped.

MUCH OF THE EQUIPMENT WE CARRY ON OUR RIGS, SUCH AS THE THERMAL IMAGERS AND THE AEDs, ARE PAID FOR OUT OF COMMUNITY DONATIONS, FOR WHICH WE ARE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL.