Estella high water rescue vehicle funding
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So actually I'm r uh bringing up uh our fire chief Gwyn uh to talk about uh the two next ads that we are looking for. Um and I'll turn it over to him and I'll be right back.
Hello everybody, Ryan Gwynn, Pasco County Fire Chief. Our next uh ask is for uh an Estella High Water Rescue Vehicle. Uh if you pay attention to the screen, so we're gonna try to get a couple pictures up so you can see what we're specifically asking about. Just to recap, like Mr. Carbala said, we had about twelve hundred water rescues between Debbie, Helene, and Milton. About 638 of those we were able to handle ourselves to roughly 50%. Without the uh the high water vehicles um coming in from the state and other agencies for
our assistance, we wouldn't have been able to get uh the other percentages. Um we noticed right away with all the vehicles that we had coming in was accessibility. So a high water vehicle was wonderful. getting in and out of it is extremely difficult. So the particular vehicle we're asking for um has a gate on the back which is actually wheelchair accessible we'll be able to lift patients in and out of as well. Um We will be able to reach a high percentage of the individuals that we weren't able to get to that we had to wait for state resources.
It is also dual purpose. It's a six-wheel, it's a actually six-wheel drive extended vehicle. We'll be able to use this vehicle to not only get individuals out of flood zones, but we have a lot of wilderness areas. We have some search and rescues that go on in the green swamp area, the Starkey area. We'll be able to be to be able to bring re uh searchers and rescue crews into those individuals to find those individuals as well. So Currently, you know, we we don't have a high w we do have one high water rescue vehicle. It's well past its
life cycle. Um we it was twenty years old when we acquired it for free from the Army uh 15 years ago, and it is well beyond use.
Any any questions on that one?