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And some small rural fire departments don't even have the ability to refill their own SCBA tanks, and instead bring them to a larger department to get them refi
by BenjiWiebe 7y ago
And some small rural fire departments don't even have the ability to refill their own SCBA tanks, and instead bring them to a larger department to get them refilled.
- mindcrime 7y agoYes, exactly. Those compressors are expensive. Back in my firefighting days, of the 21 or so departments in my county, I think maybe 3 had their own compressors. A few more had cascade systems, either at their station, or on a truck. So every couple of weeks or so, the other departments would haul all of their bottles to one of the departments that had a compressor, and refill them all (including the cascade bottles). It really is a bit of a hassle, but it's worth it for an application like firefighting where SCBA are an absolute requirement.