Falchonhead receives grant to buy new equipment
The Daily Ardmoreite
Falconhead Volunteer Fire Department received a $34,000 grant from the Southern Oklahoma Disaster Association to purchase new equipment.
Lieutenant Robert Viveros said one of the things the department was able to get was new air packs.
“With the air packs, it’s like when you’re going to go scuba diving,” Viveros said. “You have to have the vents, the tanks and the regulators. That’s a pack. So we were able to get four new packs and four new tanks.”
Viveros said they also received five new masks with a camera built into it. The camera detects heat and will make it easier for firefighters to tell where the hotspots are. The department also received a handheld device that they can take into the house or outside the house to find the hotspots.