How Does Your Department Deal With The Extreme Cold?

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I'm just curious how departments and firefighter and EMS personel are dealing with the extreme cold and snow????

Has the county or your department made available a readied and warm Bee-Line bus or other type vehicle 24/7 to respond to working fires for rehab/rewarming? How arre hydrants thawed? Do you carry buckets of sand/salt?? Dress in extra gear?

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Has the county or your department made available a readied and warm Bee-Line bus or other type vehicle 24/7 to respond to working fires for rehab/rewarming?

Well now, thats an interesting idea. Would the county dedicate a Bee-Line bus to use for rehab? I would definatly call in the Red Cross ASAP if there is any possibility of it being more than a 1 hour operation. They can usually assemble quickly and be there (from Yonkers usually) within 1/2 hour. They carry a good amount of fluids for oral resucitation (coffee, soups, crackers, etc). A large heated place like a bus tho is definatly advantageous to warm people up. I was outside earlier with no gloves and my hands froze in under 10 minutes. Any bare skin would need a good amoutn of thawing in these temps. And stuffing people in an ambulance doesn't quite cut it. I can only imagine what a nightware the Peekskill Fire would have been had it been 1 month later than it was.