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WE'RE THE EAST BANK CONSOLIDATED FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND WE'RE HERE AT HARRY'S DIVE SHOP TODAY, AND WE'RE DOING A CANAL RESCUE CLASS THAT BASICALLY ENCOMPASSES RESCUES FOR VEHICLES THAT ARE STUCK IN STATIC WATER, NON-MOVING WATER.
IT'S, IT'S A BASIC CLASS OF JUST PREPARING THE FIREFIGHTERS TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE UP AGAINST WHEN IT GOES TO, FROM THE CANALS OR VEHICLES GOING IN THE CANALS, WHETHER THEY'RE FLIPPED OVER OR ENTRAPMENT.
WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN A VEHICLE, SO DUE TO THE ZERO VISIBILITY AND THE DANGER OF GOING UNDERNEATH THE WATER LIKE THIS, WE CAN'T TELL EXACTLY HOW MANY PEOPLE WENT IN THE VEHICLE WHEN WE ARRIVED, SO WE GO DOWN UNTIL BASICALLY WE, WE KNOW THAT THE CAR IS CLEAR AS A STATISTIC, IS ROUGHLY ABOUT A THREE MINUTE RESPONSE TIME.
OF COURSE, IT DEPENDS ON WHERE THE EMERGENCY ARISES, BUT WE GO BY ABOUT A THREE MINUTE RESPONSE TIME FROM THE TIME SOMEBODY CALLS 9 1 1.
TELL THE TIME THAT THAT TRUCK SHOWS UP, THE, THE FIREFIGHTERS ARE BASICALLY EVERY SECOND COUNTS IN SOMETHING LIKE THIS, BECAUSE OF COURSE WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW LONG IT TOOK THE, THE CAR TO SINK OR, OR WHATNOT.
THE FIREFIGHTERS ARE BASICALLY GOING UNDERWATER, ANYWHERES FROM SIX INCHES OF WATER TO 10 FEET OF WATER OR, OR EVEN DEEPER THAN THAT.
WHAT, WHAT THEY'RE HAVING TO DO IS, IS THEY'RE GOING DOWN WITH ZERO VISIBILITY AND PERFORMING THESE RESCUES.
WE STARTED THIS ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, PUTTING THE CLASS TOGETHER.
PROBABLY ABOUT A YEAR AGO IS WHEN WE ACTUALLY STARTED TRAINING THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND, AND WE HAVE ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF EAST BANK CONSOLIDATED TRAIN.