February 19, 2025
Introducing Modesto Fire Department’s dual-purpose 35 Bleacher
February 26, 2025
Last week, the Modesto Fire Department in Stanislaus County, CA, received their new FG-35 Bleacher. Not only will they be using it to teach their community about fire safety and fire preparedness, but they will also inform them about the importance of extreme weather preparedness. Their unit features interactive kitchen and bedroom stages, 5-row bleacher seating, a safety-stove, a heated door module, and a burning trashcan module. Additionally, they purchased the complete Weather Smart package that features an entertainment center with a 32″ flat panel TV with a DVD player, a five-speaker surround sound system with a sub-woofer, instructional tornado and hurricane DVDs, one weather radio, shaking blinds and strobe lights, black out shades, and earthquake-simulating vibration mechanisms installed in the bedroom stage’s bed and bench.
Other features include:
- Other features include…
- A Honda EU7000 generator
- One 8×21′ electric awning
- Two electric ceiling heaters
- Three roof vents
- Alarm Group
- Smoke alarms for hearing-impaired with strobe lights, two CO2 detectors, one hard-wired and one digital read-out detector, and a pull station with strobe lights and horn
- One exterior loudspeaker system with a wireless microphone
- A refrigerator and microwave
- One wheelchair ramp stored inside the bench in the bedroom stage