Montgomery fire department gets $1M in new search and rescue equipment

Montgomery Fire/Rescue received $1 million worth of equipment to better aid victims of natural disasters.

Chief of Special Operations Samuel Castanza said the fire department has been wanting to take their special operations to the next level for years.

“The fire chief is very proactive. With all the things going on in the world today, would we be able to accommodate that,” said Castanza. The Urban Search and Rescue Team will work with a shore set, which holds up unstable building walls, noise and video detection to find unseen survivors in void spaces, a new rope cachet, and a brand new truck to transport it all.“These guys are all first responders, and that is the calling that they’re been drawn to do, so training really puts that stuff out there that helps them be able to work with all this equipment so that we’re ready in the event that some type of event of disaster.

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