Faraday Fire Department Forced To Keep Jaws Of Life Closed

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Faraday Fire Department in Hastings County, Ontario recently aquired a key piece of extracation equipment and is unable to equip it on their rigs or put it to use. The township in which the department is located in is reluctant to embrace this piece of equipment. The North Hastings rescue unit currently has one equipped on their rig. However, this is an extremely rural area and the fire departments which are 100% volunteer (lucky to get 50 members with some of these depts) and lives could potentially be lost if the rig is on another call or not on that side of the county. This unit is a county dept so it would be similar to the Westchester County Technical Rescue Team but I'm unsure as to what level of training they would receive compared to our TRT.

According to Wikipedia the population was 125,915 in 2001 and grew to 130,474 in the 2006 Canada Census. With the area of 1,473,861 acres (2,302.9 sq mi; 5,964.5 km²) reaching nearly 100 miles (160 km) from north to south, Hastings County is the second largest county in Ontario.

Faraday Fire Department forced to keep jaws of life closed

Hastings County Wikipedia

Edited November 28, 2011 by peterose313

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After reading the article I am still confused as to why they can't use it? Politics maybe?

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After reading the article I am still confused as to why they can't use it? Politics maybe?

You and me both, it wasn't exactly made clear as to why. I'm assuming because of politics and the township feels that having one on the county rescue unit is sufficient enough?