Hawaii County firefighters train by crawling in full uniform — bright yellow hats, heavy coats and pants with big boots — on the most humid summer days.
They’re the first responders who seek to rescue residents from burning homes.
Often, they’re the first to arrive when someone is having a heart attack or has suffered a traumatic injury.
But who, fire officials wondered, protects the protectors?
Battalion Chief Robert Perreira had been using a security system that gives him remote access to home surveillance from a company called Canary.
Perreira approached State Farm insurance, which donated Kaimi, Perreira’s partner and the only arson-detection dog in the state, to see if the Hawaii Fire Department might qualify for a security system donation.