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<br /> <br /> <br />Capital Improvement Project <br />2024 through 2028 <br />PROJECT # CW-98 <br />PROJECT NAME: Lift Bag (1) <br />Project Year: 2025 <br />Department: Fire <br />Program: Citywide <br />Project Type: Other Equipment <br />Useful Life (Years): 10 <br />Contact Person: Public Safety Director <br /> <br />Project Description: <br />Pneumatic bags that can lift vehicles or machinery to free trapped patients. These are located in Rescue 11. <br /> <br />Project Justification: <br />In having a significant length of both I-35E and I-35W in our City, the exposure to high speed motor vehicle crashes is <br />significant. With high speed crashes, the likelihood of patient or victim entrapment greatly increases. From January 2016 <br />to April 2022 we responded to over 830 calls for Rescue Services . We responded to motor vehicle crashes more than any <br />other calls for service. Sometimes more than one at a time. We can be dealing with a serious crash on I-35E and then <br />receive another crash on I-35W at the same time. We use the lift bags to lift vehicles or heavy equipment to make room <br />to remove a trapped person. We have only used these a few times in the last six years, but this was the only tool that <br />would work to free them. Two of the times that we needed to use the lift bags involved people in motor vehicle crashes. <br />Both patients were ejected and their vehicles rolled over on them. We currently have one set of lift bags. <br /> <br /> <br />Funding Sources FY2024 FY2025 FY2026 FY2027 FY2028 Total <br />Capital Equipment Revolving Fund (402) $0 $24,040 $0 $0 $0 $24,040 <br />Total $0 $24,040 $0 $0 $0 $24,040 <br />Expenditures FY2024 FY2025 FY2026 FY2027 FY2028 Total <br />Capital Equipment $0 $24,040 $0 $0 $0 $24,040 <br />Total $0 $24,040 $0 $0 $0 $24,040 <br />91