Go behind the scenes with the on-call fire crew at Tywyn Fire Station

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00:00So on a Thursday on drill, the crew will come in and they'll do weekly, monthly and quarterly

00:09tests depending on what week it is we're on.

00:12So as you can see around the back here, they're testing the weekly breathing apparatus, checking

00:17that the boards work, that the breathing apparatus is set.

00:18You can see it's a group community effort where they're working all together to make

00:19sure everything's working.

00:20As you can see they're almost identical appliances, they just have a few different variations

00:42like this one has a 13.5 metre ladder whereas Aberdeen's doesn't and then we've got a light

00:49portable pump on this one, where Aberdeen's doesn't, so it just swaps and changes depending

00:54on which locality we're in.

00:55So these are used to cut people out of cars.

00:56This is where we get the water from and into as we need it, it's all controlled by a computer

01:13system there which is like an iPad, it carries 1,800 litres of water on this appliance.