00:00We're here at the Whitehorse Pub in Sedgley with the lads from Dudley Green Fire Station is that
00:05right? That's right yeah. Cool we've got a fancy bit of kit here and this man's going to tell us
00:10all about it. What's your name sir? So my name's Crew Commander Marsden at Dudley Fire Station.
00:15We've raised awareness for a bleed kit for the Sedgley area and we're now about to hand it
00:21outside the Whitehorse Pub in Sedgley. So where does the funding come from for the kit then? So
00:26back earlier in the year we carried out a charity car wash at Briley Hill and raised just over a
00:32thousand pounds which was split between the Daniel Baird Foundation and the Firefighters Charity.
00:36So how many cars was that you washed? A lot of cars. That's a lot of cars isn't it?
00:41Yeah fantastic. See guys when you see these fire station car wash signs this is what happens if
00:46you go and spend your good money there. And we've got the landlord of the pub here. So did they
00:50approach you and say where can we put it and you were more than happy to help? Yeah they approached
00:55us and said you know look it needs to go in a town centre location so we were more than happy to help.
01:01Yeah. Spoke to our brewery Amber Taverns and they've offered to donate to replace it in two years
01:09you've got to replace it. Two years. The internal grubbins like. They've offered to put the money in and say
01:15you know look we'll replace it in charge when the time comes. So it's quite good.
01:20Great stuff and very satisfying lads after you've done all that hard work scrubbing the cars. I mean as
01:25well as fighting fires. But to get to the day where you know where that money gets well spent.
01:31It's satisfying yeah? Yeah really satisfying. And it's important to have stuff like a bleed kit isn't it?
01:37So if someone doesn't know what a bleed kit is just what's the main function of it? Go on.
01:42Okay so the bleed kits are designed to slow down catastrophic bleeds. This could be from an injury
01:48or a puncture wound for example. Things that emergency service workers who are off duty or
01:54members of the public if they're trained to do so can use to slow down the bleed until the emergency
01:59services arrive to take over. Fantastic work to all involved well done lads well done.
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