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Getting Them Out
The Gisborne Fire Station was given a Roto-Power Unit by Ormonds Motors, recently. The unit is used for levering apart openings, in car crashes. This will allow the brigade to free passengers more easily, especially where fire is a distinct possibility.
Ormonds Motors' general manager John Nicholls (left) explains the unit to Fire Board chairman Martin Lynch, Fireman Bernie Bliss and Chief Fire Officer Kerry Everson.
A close-up of the unit jack.
The unit can be used in a number of ways, like levering away a steering wheel and column.
The Fire Brigade representative on the Fire Board, Pat Naden, and Bernie Bliss test the powerful hydraulically operated unit.
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