A day at Fire Rescue: The ordinary and the extraordinary

Press release from Alachua County

ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – Recently, Alachua County Public Information Officer Andrew Caplan spent a day embedded at Alachua County Fire Rescue.

From the story:

Each day, more than 310 firefighters, emergency medical technicians (EMT) and paramedics take turns staggering shifts across the county’s 16 fire stations.

Station 23 is home to the county’s busiest location and only tech rescue unit – a rescue of patients from environments or circumstances that pose uniquely high levels of risk that require the use of specialized techniques or equipment (such as rope rescue, structural collapses, confined space search and rescue, trench or vehicle machinery rescue).

When the calls come in, unlike the cartoons, there’s no panic here.

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