By Brad Pedersen
Trib Live
Fundraising and state grants helped the Ford City Fire Department upgrade several tools and add two high-resolution thermal cameras to help find missing people.
“These two cameras are able to help us find people or firefighters who are caught in a fire, or even if someone is lost in the woods, just by picking up on their body heat,” said firefighter Tyson Klukan. “These are the latest and greatest cameras available, and we’re glad to have them.”
The fire department received a $12,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and held fundraisers to purchase a new sledgehammer, pry bars and brass shovel for each of its four trucks, and a new Hurst pump, which supplies the pressure to run equipment used to get people out of smashed cars.
Department officials used about $22,000 raised by its members to purchase the two thermal cameras and a pair of gas detectors, Klukan added said.
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