Senator Mark Grisanti (R-60) today announced that the Senate has passed his bill S.7677 that requires cities or other employers of firefighters to identify if a firefighter will be exposed to entrapment’s at higher levels, identify if those firefighters will be exposed to fire and determine the appropriate escape system. The bill will provide the firefighter community with the latitude to effectively respond to the needs of their locality, to consider appropriate alternatives and to provide communities with the flexibility to outfit their firefighters with the equipment that best suits their unique needs. Present law has inadvertently prevented the firefighting community from using equipment generally recognized to be acceptable because it was not covered in the most r
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