Dalton Garcia still can’t believe what happened early Friday morning. $4,000 worth of equipment was stolen from his pick-up truck during the night at the Cambridge Apartments in Davis.
Garcia is an Isleton Fire Department student intern and volunteer. His equipment is the kit that firefighters wear on the job and includes protective clothing, a helmet, oxygen mask, boots and a medical bag. Most of those items are a custom fit.
“It just kills me,” said Garcia. “I can’t jump on any piece of apparatus without it because if a fire breaks out or there’s a car accident where I need it, I now can’t perform those job duties,” he said.
Internships are typically a year and a half long and a major step in getting hired on at the fire department.