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To protect this population, the Tucson Fire Department staffs 21 fire stations and a Regional Public Safety Training Academy.
Our engine, ladder/ladder tender and paramedic companies are equipped with the latest capabilities and technologies, and our personnel are kept up-to-date with training in the latest firefighting, rescue, and
emergency medical procedures and methods.
Each engine, ladder/ladder tender company, for example, is now equipped with a thermal imaging camera, which allows
firefighters to see through smoke and darkness and rescue victims more quickly: thus saving lives.
Our ladder/ladder tender companies are equipped with specialty rescue equipment ranging from swift water rescue tools (for plucking people from flash-flooded washes), to new extrication tools such as power rams, power spreaders and power cutters (for getting people out of burning or collapsed buildings, or cars mangled in wrecks).
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