Highway Scene Safety

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Wear all the vests you want and put as many lights of every color you can imagine on the rig but nothing is a substitute for proper apparatus placement. On July 15th outside Kansas City, Mo crews were operating a secondary incident to an MVA when an 18 wheeler cruised at highway speed into the back of their rescue. As you can see in the video everyone has vests, it was a newer truck so I'm assuming it had an adequate lighting package and they were operating at night when all of these things give us our greatest advantage. Don't sleep on these highway jobs.

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