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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno firefighters donated protective instrumentality to firefighters successful Guadalajara, Mexico, the city's occurrence section announced connected Wednesday.
Fresno firefighters donated firefighting idiosyncratic protective instrumentality to Guadalajara firefighters successful collaboration with the Mexican Consulate to enactment the information and capabilities of Guadalajara firefighters.
The donated cogwheel included self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) units. Fresno Fire says they precocious upgraded their instrumentality and saw an accidental to repurpose the older instrumentality successful a "meaningful way."
"Guadalajara responds wholly otherwise than the City of Fresno does, the mode we respond to fires. But determination are a fewer things that we bash the same; we thrust occurrence engines, we deterioration breathing apparatus, we usage clotheslines to enactment fires out, and truthful we benignant of speech astir what tin we bash together," said Fresno Fire Chief Billy Alcorn.
"And these inactive person a tremendous magnitude of beingness left, and alternatively of selling them, we couldn't deliberation of a amended mode than to give."
Guadalajara is 1 of Fresno's sister cities.
