Ga. department gets new equipment, improved training from grant

By Dash Coleman
Savannah Now

GARDEN CITY, Ga. — Thanks to grant money, Garden City Fire Rescue has some new state-of-the-art equipment and heightened training for firefighters.

On Monday, the latest purchase made possible through a more than $300,000 port security grant arrived at the Main Street fire station — all roughly 7,000 pounds of it. The shiny, red $84,000 Scott Liberty 2 mobile air compressor and generator will help firefighters keep their air tanks filled when battling intense blazes.

"It used to be, when we had a big fire, somebody would have to come back here, take all the spares, load them up, take them to the scene, take all the empty ones back and start filling them up here," said Fire Chief James Crosby. "This gives us the capability of taking it to the scene and filling air bottles at the scene of the big incident. It cuts down a lot of lost time."

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