Cairns air pack Mfg Date?

[P_Island_Fire]

We have some old(?) Cairns air packs that we are trying to replace vis AFG grant. Does anybody know how to tell Manufacture date from the serial #?

ex. serial # is: 0012-4123

we took posession of them new(?) in Jan of 2001.

[islandfire03]

They were manufactured in December 2000. Not much chance of getting packs of that standard replaced by AFG.

[DubyaVFF]

I was under the impression that Cairns/Global Secure SCBA had lost their NIOSH approval, and therefore their NFPA approval for fire use. It had to o with that fact that the closure of Global Secure left no factory-certified parts and repair stream for these packs; once they need flow testing or repair, there's nobody to do it in compliance with NIOSH/NFPA.

That being the case, wouldn't they qualify for immediate replacement? Or do I have some bits missing or misplaced?