A survey from the American Animal Hospital Association estimates that approximately 40,000 animals die each year due to lack of first aid because fire responders usually don’t have the special tools that can deliver life-saving oxygen for smoke inhalation for pets. Fire departments around the country are recognizing the need to acquire specialty oxygen masks that …
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Volunteer Fire Departments in the news on Fox 16. Some video footage includes WPFD equipment and personnel. Fox 16 Special Report: Volunteer Fire Departments
These folks recently completed their training and exams to finish a 40-hour course of advanced first aid. Congratulations to these WPFD firefighters for reaching Certified First Responder status : Andrew Brzozowski-EMT, ambulance Micheal Felton, Andy Moore, Kirk Holt, Karyn Holt, David Moody, Joseph Reeves, Dan Speerly and Scott Matthews .
Sometimes when you see WPFD respond there will be lots of trucks, thumb manpower and activity associated with a specific emergency incident. You might be wondering just what is going on at an emergency scene but you never get to hear our conversations. Well, our folks are quite busy responding quickly and with the right …
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12 years in the making, WPFD finally got to perform evaluation exercises for ISO testing earlier today. With newer equipment and a lot of newer folks since the last ISO test in 1999, we practiced quite a bit over the past few months to be ready for our exam. Things went pretty well as we …