Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment
Nov 2, 2026 · 37 min · 11 segments
First responders routinely encounter hazards they can see—but some of the most persistent threats are the ones they cannot. Blood and body fluids, infectious materials, contaminated PPE and equipment…
I'll be honest, one of the things that I'll talk a little bit about here was something that I found that helped, and I found it quite by accident.
And I'll be honest, when I found it quite by accident, I was extremely skeptical.
I think that was maybe the hazmat responder in me because I ask questions and I will ask questions that I know the answers to, kind of feeling somebody out, you know what I mean? You know, see if they're telling me what they, you know, is this right? Do they know what they're talking about? Or are they just throwing me a sales pitch or something like that? So like I said, I encountered the CrestGuard technology, talk a little bit about it.
Um, and this was a right there COVID kind of, you know, one of the many ones we had there.
And one of my firefighters came up to me that was there with me and he said, Hey chief, you need to go talk to these guys.
I'm like, talk to what guys? And they said, these guys said that they can take and do this, this and this.
So I went over there and introduced me to some folks from Crest Guard and we got to talking.
Um, I kind of continued to go with that and I said, okay, give me your information.
I went back later in that room and I started looking at that and going through some stuff and I went, okay, I got questions.
So I ended up going back and talking to them and meeting with their representatives and found out, hey, these were looking at this and this was one of those parts of my system that I was going to be able to fill in.
This was an area that I was having a real difficulty achieving and getting to what I wanted.
So again, for me, it wasn't so much whether the technology sounded promising, it was whether or not it could support what I wanted to do in my system.
You know, could I have and use a repeated use for specified hazards? Could it do the compatible items of materials that we were using? within a larger process.
You know, for me, heat or the UVC was not just some kind of universal substitute for cleaning or laundering or disinfecting.
It was, for me, was something that helped me augment a process that I was trying to work on and get in place and actually was making it better.
I had to come up with a way of putting it together, but also decide if that process was what I needed for each one of the items that I was worried about.
And was this something simple enough, and I'm not talking down firefighters, but something simple enough that they could achieve and do at the fire station instead of packing everything up and going to one central location.
I'll be honest, one of the things that I'll talk a little bit about here was something that I found that helped, and I found it quite by accident.
And I'll be honest, when I found it quite by accident, I was extremely skeptical.
I think that was maybe the hazmat responder in me because I ask questions and I will ask questions that I know the answers to, kind of feeling somebody out, you know what I mean? You know, see if they're telling me what they, you know, is this right? Do they know what they're talking about? Or are they just throwing me a sales pitch or something like that? So like I said, I encountered the CrestGuard technology, talk a little bit about it.
Um, and this was a right there COVID kind of, you know, one of the many ones we had there.
And one of my firefighters came up to me that was there with me and he said, Hey chief, you need to go talk to these guys.
I'm like, talk to what guys? And they said, these guys said that they can take and do this, this and this.
So I went over there and introduced me to some folks from Crest Guard and we got to talking.
Um, I kind of continued to go with that and I said, okay, give me your information.
I went back later in that room and I started looking at that and going through some stuff and I went, okay, I got questions.
So I ended up going back and talking to them and meeting with their representatives and found out, hey, these were looking at this and this was one of those parts of my system that I was going to be able to fill in.
This was an area that I was having a real difficulty achieving and getting to what I wanted.
So again, for me, it wasn't so much whether the technology sounded promising, it was whether or not it could support what I wanted to do in my system.
You know, could I have and use a repeated use for specified hazards? Could it do the compatible items of materials that we were using? within a larger process.
You know, for me, heat or the UVC was not just some kind of universal substitute for cleaning or laundering or disinfecting.
It was, for me, was something that helped me augment a process that I was trying to work on and get in place and actually was making it better.
I had to come up with a way of putting it together, but also decide if that process was what I needed for each one of the items that I was worried about.
And was this something simple enough, and I'm not talking down firefighters, but something simple enough that they could achieve and do at the fire station instead of packing everything up and going to one central location.
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