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Gershow Recycling Provides Use of 25 Vehicles for 2013 North American Vehicle Rescue Challenge
Who: Matthew Sweeney, Safety Coordinator, Gershow RecyclingCarl Fargione, Commissioner, Hagerman Fire Department
Members of participating fire departments
What: In support of local fire, rescue and emergency service technicians, Gershow Recycling is donating the use of 25 cars for an extrication competition during the 2013 North American Vehicle Rescue Challenge.
Fifteen teams from Long Island and around the world are scheduled to take part in the three-day competition. Each team will participate in three challenge pits: Limited Pit (only hand and pneumatic tools are used), Unlimited Pit and Rapid Pit (all rescue tools are available, including heavy hydraulic rescue equipment). Those who compete in the Limited and Unlimited Pit will have 20 minutes to extricate a “victim” from a “crash,” while Rapid Pit participants will only have 10 minutes to safely perform the extrication. All teams will be judged based on the command structure, hazard and scene control, patient and rescuer safety and techniques used to disentangle the patient.
When: September 12, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
September 13, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
September 14, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Where: Hagerman Fire Department Training Grounds
510 Ralph T. Perry Drive
East Patchogue, NY
Directions: Sunrise Highway (Rte. 27) to Exit 55 toward CR 101/Patchogue/Yaphank. Take Sills Rd./E. Patchogue Yaphank Rd. (CR 101) south towards Yaphank. After going past Sunrise Highway, make the first left off CR 101 and onto N. Dunton Ave. Go 1.1 miles and then turn left onto Oakdale Avenue (Ralph T. Perry Drive). Fire department is located 0.2 mile down the road on the right-hand side. Training grounds are located behind the parking lot.
Photo Ops: Mr. Sweeney, Commissioner Fargione and firefighters posing in front of the vehicles donated for use by Gershow Recycling. Firefighters taking part in extrication competition in the pits.
Started in 1964 by Sam Gershowitz, Gershow Recycling began as a two-man operation with a tractor and trailer, a boom truck and the first portable car flattener. Now with the second generation carrying on the legacy, Gershow generates over 750 jobs, contributing millions of dollars to the local economy, while helping to preserve Long Island’s environment. Gershow Recycling takes aluminum, brass, copper, steel, cast iron, appliances, cars and vehicles. In keeping with its philosophy of “Conserving the Future by Recycling the Past,” Gershow Recycling purchases scrap metal that would have otherwise wound up in local landfills, and turns them into high-quality scrap products for recycling. The company produces both ferrous and non-ferrous products.
John Zaher/Hank Russell, PRMG
(631) 207-1057
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