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SCHEDULE A <br /> PURCHASE OF TWENTY (20) ONLY PORTABLE GENERATORS, HALOGEN <br /> WORK LIGHTS, & EMERGENCY TRAFFIC SIGNS <br /> Project Number: HWY-V 9.1007 <br /> <br /> MISSION/GOAL <br /> (State your mission or goal that the project is trying to achieve. E.g. are you trying to <br /> reduce traffic injuries and fatalities? In what specific azea of traffic, pedestrian, speeding, <br /> children?) <br /> The goal of this project is to protect motor vehicle accident victims and County of Hawaii <br /> Fire Department personnel from injury or death by providing well lit and well mazked <br /> work scenes on poorly lit rural highways and roads. We seek to accomplish this by <br /> providing emergency responders with proper equipment to safely extricate entrapped <br /> victims and provide patient caze. Specifically, the purchase of, training on, and <br /> deployment of one set of portable generators, portable work lights, and Emergency traffic <br /> signs for each front line Engine Company, twenty (20) in all. All twenty of the County of <br /> Hawaii Fire Department fire districts have poorly lit rural highways and roads as part of <br /> their response areas. <br /> These goals aze pursuant to the National Fire Protection Association Standard 1670: <br /> Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Rescue Incidents. Specific references <br /> include, but aze not limited to, NFPA 1670 section 6-3.3 requiring local jurisdictions to <br /> develop procedures for accessing victims trapped in a vehicle and NFPA 1670 section 6- <br /> 3.3(b) requiring local jurisdictions develop procedures for making the rescue scene safe. <br /> The specific use of this equipment includes but is not limited to: providing a well lit work <br /> area for County of Hawaii Fire Department personnel to work efficiently at motor vehicle <br /> accident scenes thereby reducing the time a critical motor vehicle accident victim spends <br /> inpre-hospital care and therefore increasing chances of survival, providing portable <br /> power for the work light, and providing a well mazked work area by making patients and <br /> responders highly visible through the use of work lights and emergency traffic signs. <br /> <br />