When you think of fire fighters, what comes to mind?
You should think nothing short of heroes. Dedication. Bravery. Saving others' lives while risking their own.
The list is endless.
For the Lancaster Fire Department, there are two words you probably don't think. And, it's such a big deal, the department has five pages on policy about it.
"Right," Assistant Chief K. J. Watts said. "We never really had one up until about six years ago."
Those two words: bed bugs.
"We engage with the public, we go in their house, we sit on their furniture to try to talk to them to find out what's going on and, sometimes, the bed bugs jump on us," he said.
Between three stations, the fire department goes on 9,000 calls a year. In the last few years, Watts says the exposure to bed bugs has increased up to 10 percent every year. But with the increase in bed bug numbers, how do they decrease the potential spread?
"This machine has two different heaters that have fans in them," he said.