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Article: Doctor Also Operates as Successful Entrepreneur
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- Quad - State Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright News for Business, Inc. Oct 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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As Americans have painfully learned in recent years, terrorist attacks and natural disasters overwhelm local fire and rescue departments, which can't afford enough heavy rescue trucks, often costing $500,000 or more, to handle mass casualties. And even the rescue trucks they do own often can't get through debris-blocked streets or into buildings where their equipment is needed.
The need for more affordable and mobile rescue equipment motivated a Waynesboro, Pa. company, B. Foster and Co. Inc., to develop a new product five years ago, a trailer which can be towed by a light truck or even airlifted to the disaster site where it provides lighting and power-electric, hydraulic and compressed ...