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True North Gear® DISPATCH™ DUFFEL

True North Gear® DISPATCH™ DUFFEL

True North® has been a trusted source for quality packs, bags and FR clothing     Tame your turnout gear with the Dispatch™ Duffle, our new 80L bag designed to fit all your gear comfortably. This fire fighter-approved bag’s simple-yet-functional design is...

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The Waterax Genuine Parts Store: Making Shopping Easy

The Waterax Genuine Parts Store: Making Shopping Easy

A more convenient way to shop     The WATERAX Genuine Parts Store is now online and available! From any device, any time, you can now effortlessly order genuine WATERAX parts. We're thrilled to be able to offer a more convenient way to shop, and help to save...

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Ask for the Real McCoy

Ask for the Real McCoy

WHEN YOU’RE HERE, THERE’S NO ROOM FOR COMPROMISE. YOU CAN TRUST THE MARK-3® TO MOVE WATER Trusted in the wildland firefighting community for generations. When fires occur in remote locations such as wildland forests and mountainous regions, you need a lightweight,...

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Build Your Own Skid Unit!

Build Your Own Skid Unit!

The MINI-STRIKER® is available as a portable pump, a vehicle mount unit and now as a firefighting skid deck to build your own skid unit. Initial attacks and spot patrols on fires, especially rural, field, forest, and brush fires, as well as prescribed burns, are...

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WATERAX Pumps for Wildland Fire Apparatus

WATERAX Pumps for Wildland Fire Apparatus

Fire agencies need versatile, rugged and portable equipment for wildland and wildland-urban interface (WUI) applications, to transport firefighters, hoses, pumps, fittings, water and other equipment. Due to the often remote nature of wildland fires, getting to the...

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What Gear Should Wildland Firefighters Pack?

What Gear Should Wildland Firefighters Pack?

  Wildland firefighters need the strength to not only fight fires, but to take along everything they need for a day’s or more work in their backpacks. Depending on your particular job, the gear and equipment requirements will vary. The length of your assignment...

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States That Spark [INFOGRAPHIC]

States That Spark [INFOGRAPHIC]

Wildland fires can be terrifying and devastating, so it doesn’t hurt to be informed. Take a look at the data above to see where wildfires occur most often. Wildfire Facts Roughly 90% of wildland fires in the U.S. are started by humans (i.e. unattended campfires,...

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Preparing Your Home for Wildfire Season

Preparing Your Home for Wildfire Season

We would like to believe the Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, wildland fire that started on May 2, 2016, was a unique, catastrophic event. Approximately 2,400 houses and buildings were destroyed when fire crossed containment boundaries. However, fire science experts...

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A History of Fire Pumps

The humble water pump is considered by some to be the greatest invention for fire suppression, saving lives and sparing property from fire devastation.   If speed and water are the two components in stopping fires, then portable water pumps were a necessity....

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