Camera donated in firefighter's memory - Worcester Telegram

WORCESTER??? The colleagues of the late Firefighter Jon D. Davies Sr. will carry a new tool on Rescue 1 in his memory: a $12,000 thermal imaging camera that a company donated in his honor yesterday.

The camera detects heat from fire in walls and can be used to find people in a burning building or in dark woods.

A gift from Georgia-based ISG, the camera was presented by regional Sales Manager Joe Freire to members of Rescue 1, which was Firefighter Davies? unit at the Franklin Street Station.

Firefighter Brian Carroll, who was trapped in the Dec. 8 fire that killed Firefighter Davies, held the camera yesterday. On the handles, it reads, ?In memory of Firefighter Jon D. Davies Sr.?

?I?ll carry that one,? Firefighter Carroll said. ?I left one of these at the bottom of the pile.?

The Fire Department recovered the one that Firefighter Carroll took with him into the fatal Arlington Street fire, said Deputy Fire Chief Geoffrey Gardell. Firefighters Carroll and Davies were searching for a resident when part of the building collapsed.

The older camera will go to a non-rescue truck, Deputy Chief Gardell said.

Including ISG?s gift, the Fire Department has 12 thermal imaging cameras, and the newer models are kept on rescue trucks.

Members of Rescue 1 attended the presentation, as did Mark Wholey and Rich Hillsgrove from ISG distributors Bergeron Protective Clothing in New Hampshire.

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