We have received the Hurst equipment and are in planning for deployment. Our participation with Importadora Fabregat will include training symposiums initially in the State of Jalisco, MX and then beyond. We are taking interest for instructors to help with this endeavor. We need experienced trainers and those that could enterpret. Please contact us through the website. Include pertinent information.

We don’t know when just yet but we hope to give plenty of lead time. Instructors on a mission make their own way to the area we are training. Once in a while we get donations of stand by air fare and apply it to a mission, but once there we arrange for all amenities to be covered. Any expense incured by an instructor is tax deductible as a charitable donation. We would like to help with travel and some day maybe, but for now all our donated dollars go to the equipment and materials and transporting them to the reciever.

The 115 Hurst tools donated by Hurst Inc. are on their way…… A majority of the tools are enroute to Guadalajara to Importadora Fabregot where they will be made into complete sets.

We already have committments from knowledgeable and accomplished instructors from around the country to come together to begin the needed extrication training generated by these tools.

Contact us through the website if you have any questions or an interest to contribute to the effort.

We have taken possession of 4 LP10-c’s and they are going to be checked out and deployed in 2010. When deployed we will be looking to provide training in cpr, acls and ekg enterpretation.

Enrique Fabregat, president of Importadora Fabregat is in talks with the director of Protection Civil for the State of Jalisco, mx , The equivalent of a State Fire department much like Cal Fire in California. It is through this agency that we hope to get help to distribute the Hurst sets.
As our group, Firefighters Crossing Borders is contacting all the other groups we work with, we extend an open invitation to contact us to see if the area you are currently helping or would like to help outside the US is eligible to participate in this Hurst tool program,

Neither FFCB or its members are profiting from this deal other than greatly improving conditions in those areas that get a new set and training.

On August 31, 2009 Executive Director Joel Schwarz spoke at a ceremony at the Hurst plant in Shelby, North Carolina. With Director Scott Booth we accepted 115 cutters and spreaders along with a few power units after Hursts 6 month program to offer money to trade in old tools for new technology. They refurbished the tools and donated them to us. These tools although still working are mostly from the 70s and 80s and they did not feel comfortable keeping them in service here in the US.
We will be sending these tools to central Mexico and in a partnership with a Hurst master vendor Importadora Fabregat, those tools will be given free along with a one year service warrantee to any agency that purchases a power plant. Currently talks with several state governments to assist agencies purchase the sets are in play.

Any group interested in helping a particular agency can contact us through the website and inquire to participate in this deal. Shipping will be free to anywhere in mexico and we will soon be inviting many firefighters to a training symposium that will occur to help put these tools in service.

We encourage our brothers and sisters that work with agencies throughout central and south america to utilize this tremendous program. Our goal was to get as many tools in the hands of our brothers and sisters in other countries and we believe this will happen. Firefighters Crossing Borders will not make any money on this deal. All transactions will go through Importadora Fabregat who as we have found is excited to be helping firefighters and emergency responders in his own country and those in other countries.