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Archive Home > 2007 > June > 03 > Bend innovator looks to make fire work easier

Bend innovator looks to make fire work easier

'The Rookie' fire hose roller saves hours of exhausting grunt work

By Anna Sowa / The Bulletin
June 3, 2007

After firefighters squelch the last embers of a blaze and their 100-foot hoses fall limp without water, someone must roll the roughly 100-pound hoses up, pushing remaining air and water out, and lug them back to the truck. Bend resident David Johnston says his Rookie-brand portable fire hose....

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