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Donation helps Duncombe firefighters buy rescue tools

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Duncombe Fire Department captains Kasey Porter, left, and Don Zenor, hold rescue tools very similar to the ones the department is buying with the help of a donation from AgroLiquid. They are joined by, from left, Firefighter Joleah Stuhr; Firefighter Rocky Saxton; Assistant Fire Chief Cory Stuhr; Nick Bancroft, chief executive officer of AgroLiquid; and Terri Saxton, a representative of AgroLiquid.

DUNCOMBE — A donation from a Midwestern fertilizer producer is enabling the volunteer fire department in Duncombe to buy new, more powerful tools for rescuing people from wrecked vehicles.

AgroLiquid gave the money to cover about half the cost of a new set of battery-powered extrication tools.

The company is based in Michigan and has a facility in Williams. Its chief executive officer, Nick Bancroft, came to Duncombe over the weekend to present the donation. The exact amount was not disclosed.

The Duncombe Fire Department has hydraulic rescue tools that must be connected to a power unit via cables. The new tools will be battery powered.

Fire Chief Todd Bingham said the new tools can be put to work faster since there will be no need to hook up cables.

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This hydraulic spreader is similar to one of the tools the Duncombe Fire Department is buying with the help of a donation from AgroLiquid.

“We should be able to deploy them faster to cut cars apart faster and get people into ambulances sooner,” he said.

He said the new tools will be delivered in August.

Starting at $4.94/week.

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