Stoic firefighters suffer the summer heat more than most

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Firefighters have to strap on 145 pounds of fireproof gear even during hot summer days, and as reporter Kerry Burke found out, that is no easy task

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Twin Oxygen tanks? Perhaps 1 air bottle we mean?

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Im fearful of getting any fires in the next few days, our manpower is already thin, with this heat we will drop like flies, (more emphasis on the overweight bunch like myself) but my department doesnt feel the need to have rehab or the ladies bring us refreshments...

Stay safe in this heat gang, watch each other and keep hydrated.

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Twin Oxygen tanks? Perhaps 1 air bottle we mean?

Good catch. If you look carefully in one of the pics, the FF has a PW extingusher along side the SCBA bottle (with a shoulder strap), that maybe what the report was looking at..