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Norwalk Fire Department details tanker mutual-aid plan, station renovations, new equipment and training
Summary
At the Oct. 21 Fire Commission meeting, department leaders described a new tanker mutual-aid task force covering roughly 54 streets, progress on station renovations and SCBA upgrades, ongoing training exercises, and September inspection and public-education activity.
Norwalk Fire Department leaders updated the Fire Commission on a series of operations, equipment and training initiatives at the Oct. 21 meeting.
Assistant Fire Chief (Operations) Reardon described a newly executed tanker task-force mutual-aid plan intended to improve response in non-hydrant areas of Norwalk. The plan covers roughly 54 streets across West Norwalk, Silvermine and the Cranberry districts and provides for automatic dispatch of tankers from mutual-aid partners in Stamford, New Canaan, Darien and Wilton. Reardon said the task force and a revised standard operating procedure were developed over about six months and practiced during an Oct. 11 exercise at the community college that included mutual-aid partners and Norwalk command staff.
Reardon also said Tactical Unit 2 — a specialty rescue unit intended to accompany Rescue 2 and…
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