City of Minneapolis, MN A City that Works, 4 Feb 2020

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From YouTube: A City that works - Fire Stores

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Fire Stores Supervisor Jim Thomas handles all the supplies firefighters need. From safety gear to saws and paper towels to potato mashers, his warehouse stocks it all.

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My name is Jim Thomas I work for the Minneapolis Fire Department I managed the fire stores we're a supply for the fire department. We handle all the supplies and equipment or the firefighters are used in the field.

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The number-one priority of my job is to make sure the firefighters are safe in the equipment that we purchased repair and then we do for them it's in top working order. So this mask came in the other day from a fire firefighter thinks you got some kind of film on there important we're gonna try to clean it off. If we can, if we can't we'll replace this glass, we deal with all their head-to-toe safety gear. Whole pant boot helmet a deal with all their gas monitoring equipment.

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Firefighters come down switch out saws, we have extra nozzles band-aids, we got OB kits, firefighters are delivering a baby. They're gonna need this kit. Probably one of the funniest things. Is we stock the biggest potato masher you've ever seen? I've, never thought I'd be ordering that you know.

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Firefighters are working, a 24-hour shift. These are their homes, they need all the cleaning supplies clean their bathrooms. Their bedrooms, kitchen supplies, napkin paper towel or a full service warehouse.

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When you see the fire departments in the news, it's probably gonna mean we're very busy, because there's a lot of equipment, it's being used, you could have hose that gets burned up in the fire. You could have axes that are broken. We drop everything when a firefighter comes in, get them in here and get them back out and get back into service. It's just a great place to work. I just never know what I'm coming into each day.

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That's part of my job is working with the men and women on the Minneapolis Fire Department best people in the world, I just all come to work every day.

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