As the primary first responders in a remote are, members of the Tusayan Fire Department rarely know what they might find when they respond to vehicle accidents on State Route 64. The solution is to be prepared for everything. The department recently received a grant for $14,440 from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to purchase equipment to help stabilize vehicles at crash scenes and reduce scene-to-hospital response time by up to 10 percent. The equipment includes high-quality resin cribbing, which is used to wedge underneath vehicles that have rolled or been lifted to keep them steady while medical personnel remove patients from the wreckage. It’s a big upgrade from what the department was using — wooden blocks nailed together for strength and cut into wedges.