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Hawaii County Charter Commission -2 August 10, 2018 basically a fire truck with a very long ladder. We have two currently, a 100 -foot aerial and a 75 -foot aerial; one on each side of the island. Tankers we utilize because a lot of our subdivisions do not have water infrastructure. We utilize tankers to augment the water that's on the fire truck. Just a couple of pictures, a tanker of 2,000 gallon capacity and a 3,000 gallon capacity. We have several of these across the island. This is our newest tanker apparatus that was a design out of the personnel out of the Waimea fire station. It's an off-road 1,600 gallon tanker that was used extensively at the Waikoloa fire with great results. It's a foam application, water application, high pressure off-road vehicle, replacing a similar smaller -type vehicle that's about 25 years old at this time. So great piece of apparatus that just got its first work at the Waikoloa fire. Then these are some of our other brush trucks. The one that's on the right bottom corner is the one that we just replaced with the new tanker. But we still utilize that one with our volunteers and also down at the South Kohala area. So just some various looks at our smaller brush trucks to get into our wildland areas where our fire trucks cannot go. Then on the rescue side, an the left we have a heavy rescue, and what's called our light rescue on the right. So depending on the type of rescue call, the light rescue will get out to the scene a lot quicker, especially for surf here down in the Keaukaha area. Then our heavy rescue is one that's for prolonged incidents where we have all of the rescue equipment on the apparatus ready to go at the command post. Then just our rescue boat on the left, and then our newest assets over the last couple of years, our power watercraft for our Ocean Safety Divisions. We have one team in East Hawai`i and one team in West Hawai`i. On the EMS side, on the left is our standard ambulance; and on the right what we call our quick response. Most of the Administrative personnel, you know, are licensed paramedics. We're MICT's (Mobile Intensive Care Technician), both of us here, so we utilize our vehicles as quick responses also. When we're in the community and there's a call, we'll go, start treatment on them till the ambulance can reach the scene there. This is our newest fire station, the Haihai Fire Station that we opened up in 2017. Pretty much the flagship of the type of structure for the future. It's built as a 50 year -plus design station. If you go in there now, you'll notice there's a lot of space, but it's designed for growth. Because in comparison, if you ever visited the Honoka`a Fire Station, you can see that at that time it was built for the size of Page 24