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    The Firehouse.com Cleaning & Laundry product category is a collection of information, product listings and resources for researching various fire station and firehouse cleaning and laundry service and products, including PPE washers and extractors, firfighter decontamination sinks and showers, laundry room equipment, PPE isolation gear options.
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    Station Design 2025 Conference Keynote
    June 17, 2025
    Janet Wilmoth reviews some of the strategies for building fire stations to last 75 years to include safety and prepare for new technology.

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    Ambridge Borough Fire Department
    Fire Station Extractor
    Rescue Intellitech
    RESCUE Intellitech
    July 6, 2023
    RESCUE Intellitech is working with Dynamic International to help fire departments secure grant funding for firefighter cancer prevention equipment.
    Photos courtesy of Mitchell Architects
    May 23 Station Design Supplement Gear Eqpt Cleaning Update Pic 1
    Robert Mitchell
    May 8, 2023
    Robert Mitchell provides a tidy explanation of how departments must set up the facilities for ridding carcinogens and toxins from turnout gear, equipment and clothing before members...
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    Firehouse Staff
    Feb. 6, 2023
    The 2023 Station Design Conference will provide educational opportunities in blueprint reading, prototype fire stations, "free" land and the latest in apparatus bay technology...
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    John J. Salka Jr.
    Oct. 17, 2022
    John J. Salka Jr. provides important guidance that otherwise might elude new fire chiefs in their earliest days on the job.
    Photo courtesy of GE Appliances
    Laundering at the firehouse—beyond cleaning turnout gear in extractors—deserves attention. Even at stations that employ Hot, Warm and Cold Zone design, contaminants (carcinogens, chemicals, bacteria, bedbugs, etc.) can infiltrate living areas. Conventional clothes washers and dryers, including those that have high-temperature operation, can help to mitigate such problems. Here, the Warwick, RI, Fire Department takes delivery of a GE washer and dryer that GE Appliances donated to the department via its GEA4Heroes program.
    Tom Williams
    March 14, 2022
    Conversations about firefighter health and safety in the firehouse usually don't include discussion about clothes washers and dryers, but they should.