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My name is Torbjörn Petersson and I work with equipment and technique at Gothenburg Fire & Rescue service.
I have worked as a firefighter for 22 years and now only work daytime.
I have worked a lot with equipment and vehicles and I will show you our vehicle and the equipment on it.
This compartment is special/different for every vehicle in our department and is configured depending on the special task for each station.
Gårda station has water diving as a specialty but we have a special vehicle to this so we have some mixed content here.
Forrest fire kits and some water jet spikes, hoses in bags or in metal cases.
In the hose bags we have 42 mm hoses, 2 lengths of 25 meters.
This hose is mostly used in the Forrest, it is no longer approved for internal firefighting.
And we also have a manifold for each bag.
The metal cases breaks easily and disappears, this bag is easy to carry, one on the shoulder and one in your hand.
With the metal cases you can only carry one in each hand, with these you can carry two if you want to.
If you are going into the forest it could be very practical.
We also have these bags with 76mm hoses, then it is one hose in each bag.
Walls that slide out
With fire extinguishers, warning tape, stabilizing struts and some accessories.
Nozzles, water jet spikes, manifolds, Jetmatic backup nozzle and some rope.
The shut off valve we can use when we have stand lines in buildings
If we use this we can change vehicle etc without having water losses when disconnecting the hoses.
It is also good to use in the forest to be able to shut off and save the water.
Stretchers at road crashes, broom, a long nozzle and a breaker.
This can be used through a window or a hole in the wall, when we have lots of heat to work against.
You can adjust the water jet with the nozzle here and the shut off valve here.
Or up in the basket of the ladder you can put this down in a hole you have made.
Höganäs board in two parts
The short board is used to stabilize the victim and start to get them out,
You continue with the longer board and pull the victim onto this.
This is the lifting section, lifting bags with air tube, regulator, hoses, maneuver box and a support for the bags.
Hooligans to tear inner roofs down etc, they were added to this truck some months ago.
There is a station west from here that has used them longer.
Here it should lay an inflatable rescue raft, an Aqua Saver, that you paddle by hand.
Since this is a diving station we have a special vehicle for that purpose.
Steel rescue saw, works very well for cutting holes in roofs etc
It is not that much of a difference between this and a normal chainsaw.
The chain is different, it is a special chain, the supplier claims it could cut up to 1,2 mm of plate.
We are currently evaluating this if we should use this or not.
It requires the same training as for the chainsaw and then it is the Swedish regulations surrounding this that is applied.
I have used this myself at a fire here, created a hole in a roof and it worked great
It cut through the trusses and everything very smooth.
It is very expensive to buy but you do not use that many, the chain cost 2700 SEK to buy (270 Euro)
You can repair the chain, exchange some of the teethes etc.
We should do some tests what it can manage in aluminum etc.
We have some splash protective suits for small hazmats, Trelleborg suits.
The internal firefighting compartment.
Here they have their hose, double rolled hose and a nozzle.
They have forcible entry tools, a crowbar, a cover breaking tool to bend away the cover for the lock.
Hydraulic tools, a stationary pump and some tools to this.
We have one cutter and one spreader
If we use a portable pump it only has a certain amount of oil, then you have to think about the tool you use.
With the stationary pump we can operate two tools without having to worry about the oil.
The stationary pump also have a longer life span, the portable pump does not last as long.
After 4 or 5 years the portable pump needs to be replaced and it is very expansive to do.
Here we have some Holmatro protections, to cover pillars after cutting
Magnets keep them in place and they cover sharp edges etc, there is an entire kit in here.
Oslo chains we call this, we have the ability to pull a vehicle apart.
Our station in Mölndal has heavy rescue as a specialty and they have been using this method for some years.
It is a way to open a vehicle very easy and fast, one chain around the steering wheel and one around the a-pillar.
Another anchor point around the c-pillars and secure it in another truck.
Then you pull the vehicle apart, a crashed car wants to straighten itself out.
And we help the car with these chains and some cuts in the lower beams to open up the vehicle.
We conducted some test some years ago, it took about 8 minutes from start to finish.
We had the chance to see the result of the method, it was some old cars but it works.
I do not know how often it is used but it is another tool to use.
The golden hour and the golden half hour is important and this is a very good way to get the victims out fast if you practice it.
It is a matter of recourses too, if we have two vehicles on the scene then it is a very good method.
It is a decision that we have to make from time to time if we are going to use it.
The pump, in and out water, a foam nozzle 400 liter, a high pressure hose reel.
We use the high pressure up to three stories high, easy to deploy and then add regular lines.
It is the length of the hose that prevents us from using it higher, it is 80 meters and it of course also depends on how far in you should go.
It is a very good tool.
A head for our water hydrants
A working platform that we can use when tearing down roofs, cutting at truck accidents etc
Could be an alternative escape route from the first story, 2 legs out, handle bars out, very good to use.
It is a question in how often we take it out and just to remember to take it out.
But it works very good, stable to use.
Mölndal got it from the beginning to use at the heavy rescue scenarios since the trucks are higher.
But the decision was later to add it on all trucks, to use when tearing roofs etc.
The legs are also adjustable so the decision was to add it to all the engines in the department.
Some more tools, crowbars, magnetic tool to lift our covers for the hydrants, brooms, shovel, water hydrant keys, bolt cutter etc.
A toolbox with lots of tools, screwdrivers, sledge etc.
We have some absorption material here, bags to collect spill.
Put it under the leakage and it rises by itself when it fills up.
Our compartment with power tools.
Here we have our Wacken saw, it is some new cutting blade that we are trying here.
It is some kind of hardened teethes here, I am not really sure what kind of blade it is right now.
We are trying to find a good solution for this machine.
We also have this blade but we are not that happy with this blade.
A regular chainsaw, a Husqvarna.
We also have protective pants and helmet for the chainsaw.
Above this we have our battery powered Devalt machines.
Reciprocating saw, screwdriver and a grinder. And some different blades to these tools.
Three batteries so that each tool have one, or so you can change when they run out.
The screwdriver we use to take down panels etc, the reciprocating saw is for cutting floors in buildings etc,
and the grinder is for cutting sprints on doors etc, we also use the saw to cut windshields on cars, works great.
We want to minimize the movements in the car, with the hand saw there is lots of movement.
Above this we have the same tools but with cords to them.
A bigger grinder, screwdriver, reciprocating saw and a smaller grinder.
Our compartment with electric tools except for the protective boots for the chainsaw and a medical bag.
Cable reels, electric suction fan and a PPV fan.
We choose this fan because it is electrically driven thus environmental friendly.
If it is petrol driven you get the exhaust inside if you cannot lead them away.
The same capacity or higher as the Typhoon, it is quiet compared to the petrol driven fans,
Works very well, we are very pleased with it, it is installed on all new engines.
We have an hydraulic electrical generator that manages 9000 watts on the roof of the engine.
Electric controls and a small water pump.
We also have the portable pump for the hydraulic tools here and two hoses.
We also have a socket wrench kit, Kamasa tools.
Filter masks and some one time filter masks, goliath lamps two of them.
We have had some troubles with the other kinds of lighting like the halogen lights, they get very hot.
These work very well and they can take a beating, the halogen does not take a beating.
My name is Lasse Gunnarsson and I work as a fire officer at Gårda station.
I will show you what we have back here in the truck.
We have the masks here, Interspiro masks, Savox sender unit for the radio,
From the Savox we have the cord to the connection for the radios.
We have a PASS alarm attached to the harness, we activate it when we enter inside a building.
At easy operations we do not use them, it is annoying to hear the alarm when you sit still.
We have not used them such a long time but at larger incidents we use them.
The cord is inserted into our Motorola radios, GP 340. It is connected back here with these two pins.
But we do not use them if we put out a car fire for example
If you get the pins all the way in it works ok, but sometimes it fails and the radio isn't working.
The range of the radio is good but right now we have problems to carry them since the pocket in the coat is wrong.
We have some problems with the communications sometimes but it is often this connections here.
We have also had some problems with the radios get stuck in transmitting mode, but in general we think it works ok.
Here we have an explosimeter, a Dräger 7000, it starts when we take it out.
We mostly use it when we get calls about liquefied petroleum gas.
It is very easy to use, though we feel that we do not know it fully,
It can do much more then we can, simple and durable and it is enough for our needs.
Here we have our thermal camera from MSA, a fairly simple model in black and white.
We haven't been that happy with it, it has failed on us a couple of times.
We had a previous model in color which we liked more.
We always take this with us, always
When we enter a building where something has happened we always take this with us.
We use it very much after the fire also, to check for heat in sawdust etc, then it is great to use.
Without this you feel a lot more uncertain. It is a great tool
The first firefighter with the hose takes it with him
It would be good if we could have more than one with us but it is of course a matter of price.
We discussed longer entries before, then all firefighters should have one of these.
So that everyone could get a better picture of the surroundings.
But it is cost
It is being charged here and we have the spare battery here. We have never been out of battery with it.
Here we have some tools for traffic collisions.
Instead of having to look for the tools we take this on when we exit the truck.
Different tools to enter the vehicle and break windows.
Belt cutter, knives etc. This and the high visibility vest is always used.
And we have our flashlights for firefighting, a bigger and one smaller.
Many only use the small light because it easy easier to carry and it is enough light.
I think it is a result of the thermal camera, we are not that dependant on the lights anymore.
So many only use the small light, any many position it on the breast here.
Traffic warning lights
Here we have a vehicle computer where the crew in the back can see the fire hydrants, the blue dots.
So when we arrive I zoom this in so that the crew in the back knows where the hydrants are.
And we also have an icon that shows where the Engine is.
On this I also get the information about the call. If it is an object we know I get a picture over the object for example.
We always use this computer at fires to see where the hydrants are.
The last thing they do is to check on this screen, I also use it but I have other things to do initially.
So either the crew here look at it or else the crew on the ladder get this task with the hydrants.
Then the guys from the ladder looks here or in the front at my screen to see where the hydrant are.
So the last thing I do is to make sure that the map is zoomed in correctly.
In the front I have this computer with the hydrants zoomed in now.
I also get information about the objects where we have automatic fire alarms, and in the future we will add more information.
We have stationary vehicle radio, Ericsson, good range with a few exceptions.
A vehicle telephone which I use inside the Engine since it has better range.
It is also connected to this mobile which I use when I leave the truck.
After 2 signals it is connected to the mobile phone, a Sony that should be durable.
It works ok and takes a beating.
I also have a camera with me to document, we use this very much.
The police appreciate that we take lots of pictures and we use it for the reports after the incident.
I have this portable radio, Ericsson B96, which the authorities ordered long ago.
We are not so happy with this, we will exchange this too an older model which we liked more before the new tetra system is online.
I think it is a bit hard to work with sometimes, and we feel the old Motorola has better range.
We have a classic whiteboard to write addresses and information etc
Sometimes we use this to scetch the incident to get some overview
Most important if I can give the entry team a view over the building before they enter.
Here the driver has a reverse camera, and here is the navigation.
Here it will also display vehicle information, but foremost a navigation tool.
I often get a point from the emergency central to where the incident is.
I can then choose to show both here, then I can see both where we are and where we are going.
But I get no navigation on how to drive there here, but the driver gets this.
In downtown I need to help the driver because it is so crowded, I try to help the driver as much as can,
I would like to have the navigation in my display also, sometimes the driver is too occupied with the traffic downtown,
sometimes they tell me that they cannot watch the navigation, so then I feel that it would be good for me to have it here also.
If I need I can take this with me like an ordinary laptop, with enough batteries so that I do not have to worry
I can move the screen as I like and put it down like this and only use it as a touch screen.
I can drag the map a look around