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MOUNT UNIACKE:<\/strong> Thanks to funds raised through the Nova Scotia Firefighters 50\/50 lottery, Uniacke Fire has made significant equipment upgrades over the past year, totaling nearly $50,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the new additions is a covered trailer for the department\u2019s side-by-side, allowing it to be stored safely out of the elements and ready for immediate use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department also purchased a DJI Air 3S drone, which has already been deployed several times this summer to help spot smoke and assess the size of larger incidents from the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other upgrades include lighting improvements on Truck 308, replacing all emergency and exterior lights with longer-lasting LED options, and four portable TMR radios to enhance on-scene communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medical jump bags and automated external defibrillators have been distributed to several firefighters\u2019 personal vehicles, ensuring faster access to critical medical equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The department also added smaller vehicle extrication tools to their trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNone of this would have been possible without the support of our community,\u201d said Uniacke Fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA huge thank-you to the Amherst Firefighters Association for starting and maintaining the 50\/50 lottery, and to the team at Rafflebox for their continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MOUNT UNIACKE: Thanks to funds raised through the Nova Scotia Firefighters 50\/50 lottery, Uniacke Fire has made significant equipment upgrades over the past year, totaling nearly $50,000. Among the new additions is a covered trailer for the department\u2019s side-by-side, allowing it to be stored safely out of the elements and ready for immediate use. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[9494,196,315,7039,9495,6947],"class_list":["post-59482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-covered-trailer","tag-east-hants","tag-mount-uniacke","tag-n-s-firefighters-5050","tag-new-equipment","tag-uniacke-district-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}