Firefighters in Bedford County have a new tool to help them fill their tanker trucks and train for calls in rural areas. New equipment has been installed to capture rainwater on the downspout of a building at a fire training facility on Orange Street in Bedford. Firefighters can connect to a pipe and fill their trucks with the rainwater that's been collected in an underground tank. "The water that runs into that tank would otherwise be runoff, so our creeks would have to deal with it and it might cause an erosion problem," explained Todd Kready, director of the Peaks of Otter Soil and Water Conservation District. Not only can the water be used on calls; firefighters can use the equipment for training.