Detroit - awash in a sea of desperation...

Detroit Firehouse (Posted on FaceBook)

As everyone knows the city of Detroit is and has been in some hard times. The Fire Department has once again had someone steal equipment off of a rig while they were battling a fire. These issues just never end and it’s frustrating as a firefighter not having the proper equipment to do the job that we all signed up to do. I am asking every one of my fire service friends to see if you could help us out with something. The Jaws of Life power unit for our Hurst tools was stolen off the rig while at a fire.  This eastside squad along I-94 is one of the only 6 rigs in the city that has jaws on it to protect the citizens of Detroit and the metro Detroit people that travel thru the city to work or out for a good night on the town. Also on the westside we have another squad that does not have any power unit for their set of jaws, so right now in the city of Detroit there is only 4 sets of Jaws of Life for the entire city. God forbid anyone get hurt and need our assistance and we cannot help due to the under equipped rigs that we currently are faced with. If for some reason anyone has a small generator that also would solve this problem, the squad has a hydraulic set up on the rig with cord reels but has no way to power it because the PTO does not work on the rig but we could make it work with a generator. If you could send this out to your friends also and see if they too may have something in their reserve that could help please do.

Thank You Very Much!

Stephen Florian
Detroit FF
Ladder 19