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A typical day for an Airman in the fire truck maintenance shop consists of regular checks on the vehicles, scheduled maintenance, and oil changes. This ensures the 31st Civil Engineer Squadron’s firefighters can be ready at a moment’s notice to respond to a call.
“There's always a different problem, it's never the same thing,” said Staff Sgt. Emily Scully, 31st Logistics Readiness Squadron fire truck maintenance supervisor. “You're always learning something new or figuring something out. It's like a puzzle, and it's really great being able to solve it.”
About 60% of the shop's work is preventative maintenance and the rest is regularly scheduled maintenance to ensure vehicles are operable at all times.
Although a lot of the work they do is on engines, these maintainers also must keep the hose and pumping systems on the trucks in working order.
“Our mission is to make sure that there’s enough water, whether on or off the flightline,” said Scully. “We help ensure the firefighters will be able to respond with their trucks.”
Additionally, they repair parts related to safety, such as airbags, lights, and seatbelts as well as starters.
“We do it all,” said Scully. “My team replaces it.”
Scully said that since there is so much problem solving, and the work varies so much, it is a very rewarding job. Getting the trucks serviceable and back to the firefighters is what it’s all about.
“Our shop is only teamwork. We never work alone,” said Scully, “We can't get by without
being a team here.”
| Date Taken: | 02.01.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 02.10.2022 03:28 |
| Story ID: | 414335 |
| Location: | AVIANO AIR BASE, IT |
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