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How this stair chair makes transport safer
Bloomington City CouncilWednesday, February 26, 2025
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[0:00] hi my name is Max favor with Bloomington
[0:02] Fire I'm a firefighter EMT here at
[0:05] Bloomington Fire we do a lot more than
[0:07] just fire maybe 70 80% of our calls are
[0:10] actually EMS so what we're going to
[0:12] demonstrate for you here today is called
[0:14] a stair chair so we're in a stairwell
[0:16] Alec is our patient sitting in the stair
[0:18] chair with our other stair chairs
[0:20] they're manual someone in front someone
[0:22] in the back and we are physically
[0:24] lifting this person most of the way up
[0:26] the stairs or down the stairs with this
[0:28] power chair it's to Save A Lot on our
[0:31] backs and necks and all kinds of things
[0:34] and the tracks on here are what is
[0:37] powered so they will do the heavy
[0:39] lifting here instead of us