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ARE YOU WHISTLING PAST THE GRAVEYARD?

Unlike our favorite Halloween monsters and ghouls, the Toxic Twins are very real, and very deadly! Sometimes they kill quickly using heart attacks as their form of malice, other times they kill slowly in the form of cancer and respiratory illnesses. They are invisible, silent and odorless - and indiscriminate!

Are you wearing your SCBA during overhaul and fire suppression ops, or are you whistling past the graveyard hoping the goblins will give you safe passage one more time? I can assure you, the Twins are always lurking for another victim - and this time it may be you! Don't take the chance - wear your SCBA!

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Comment by Paul Combs on October 26, 2011 at 1:37pm: LOL! Me neither!!

Comment by Nick Morgan on October 26, 2011 at 1:32pm: Yep, me too! But like my high school teachers used to say, "once you know it, you're responsible for it". Live and learn. I don't miss swallowing plaster, lath, and drywall though!

Comment by Paul Combs on October 26, 2011 at 12:44pm: It's so easy to think that overhaul is not dangerous. After all, the fire is out, right? I've been guilty of this myself on more than one occasion!

Comment by Nick Morgan on October 26, 2011 at 12:37pm: You hit the nail on the head here Paul!! Trying to get firefighters to keep their SCBA on for roof ventilation or overhaul is often like herding cats!

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