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Alex Strawn

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"Fire trucks, when they get to your house, they don't like to go beyond 150 feet from their fire truck. I guess they start losing pressure or something happens at that point."

“Fire trucks, when they get to your house, they don't like to go beyond 150 feet from their fire truck. I guess they start losing pressure or something happens at that point.”
Speaker
Alex Strawn
Community
Alaska News
Location
Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Captured at
June 15, 2026

From the transcript

So this makes it— this is based on fire code. Fire trucks, when they get to your house, they don't like to go beyond 150 feet from their fire truck. I guess they start losing pressure or something happens at that point. Go ahead. So we make sure that the roads can actually fit a fire service vehicle, correct?

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