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For
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| January
4, 2006
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of The Attorney General
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Peter C. Harvey,
Attorney General
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Roger
Shatzkin
609-292-4791
Susan Abbey
609-292-6055
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Advisory
Visuals,
Photo Opportunities
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Thursday, January 5 at Noon
As part of New Jersey’s Northeastern
Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI),
Six New Mobile Breathing Air Support Vehicles
Will Be Presented to Fire Departments From
Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth, Hackensack,
Paterson and Morris County
The Fire Departments Will Then Be Trained
in Their Use
B efore Taking Them Back to Their Communities.
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William
Kramer, Deputy Director, New Jersey
Division of Fire Safety, DCA
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Randall
Richardson, NJ Domestic Security Preparedness
Task Force, OAG
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Representatives
of Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth, Hackensack,
Paterson and Morris County fire departments.
WHAT:
As part of New Jersey’s Northeastern
Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI), six
new mobile breathing air support vehicles
will be presented to fire departments from
Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth, Hackensack,
Paterson and Morris County. The Fire departments
will then be trained in their use before
taking them back to their communities.
WHERE:
Springfield Fire Department
200 Mountain Ave.
Springfield, New Jersey
973-912-2267
WHEN:
Thursday, January
5 at noon.
VISUALS:
Firefighters in training with self-contained
breathing equipment, six brand-new mobile
breathing support vehicles.
BACKGROUND
INFO:
The
vehicles each cost approximately $350,000
and are designed to provide breathing
air and refills for self-contained breathing
apparatus (SCBA) used by firefighters
when combating fires as well as acts of
terrorism. They were purchased with UASI
federal homeland security grant funds.
Each vehicle is designed to carry more
than 100 spare breathing air cylinders
each and is equipped with a compressor
that can refill six cylinders at one time.
Additionally, the vehicles are equipped
with large generators to provide lighting
and electric power at emergency scenes.
The
state’s regional UASI program has
been designed to protect a six-county
region that accounts for almost 45 percent
of New Jersey’s total population
(Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic
and Union counties). The region is also
rich with critical infrastructure, including
chemical and pharmaceutical facilities
and key transportation infrastructure,
such as the three Hudson River crossings,
the Ports of Elizabeth and Newark, the
New Jersey Turnpike/Interstate 95, Garden
State Parkway, Amtrak’s Northeast
Corridor, Newark Penn Station and Newark
Liberty International Airport.
Each
host fire department is required to house
and maintain the vehicle, provide training
to its members, and respond anywhere in
the state that the vehicle is requested
through the New Jersey Division of Fire
Safety.
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