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To rehabilitate whom and from what?

Added by Monkey Boy The 3rd on 30 May 2012.

In North America Fire Depts are required to provide rest and nutriment to firefighters at given intervuls. This lessens the chance of illness and/or death from firefighting activities.
Please see NFPA 1584 for details. We care about the safety and welfare of our emergency personnel.
A far better service than the old tea pot in an equipment locker.

Added by John Harris on 30 May 2012.

Not sure how it's done in the 'over the pond' but some UK brigades operate a firefighter welfare support vehicle that offers a refrigeration option to rapidly cool overheated firefighters. Merseyside is one such brigade that I can think of.

Added by Yelp Bullhorn on 31 May 2012.

In addition to the cooling/warming(winter time) our units provide lavatory facilities. Some of your unit there also provide these features.I believe that in the archives of this site there is a photo of one such unit from the UK.

Added by John Harris on 31 May 2012.

That's great info thanks chaps.

My local fire authority have a 4 hour rule which basically means a fire fighter is not expected to be working at a demanding incident for more than 4 hours. Welfare provisions consist of teapots in equipment lockers for most, occasionally public generosity and even more seldom a Salvation Army canteen van (God bless the volunteers for their service).

As for overheating, buckets of water are usually used.

Added by Monkey Boy The 3rd on 31 May 2012.

My understanding is that is used to provide on-site emergency first-response treatment of firefighters (and I guess fire victims) suffering from dehydration, heat stroke, smoke inhalation and other problems not needing hospitalization or medical care. This jibes with some of the comments above

Added by Jim Sadler on 03 June 2012.

This rig is a 2006 Ford F650 with body work by PK Bodies.

Added by Ian McCord on 17 January 2013.

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