INDIANA - Nostalgia may be fine for some things, but Faron Livingston has few fond memories of the backpack-style water cans that firefighters used to have to lug around to battle brush and forest fires.
"The straps were nylon, like the kind you'd see on old lawn chairs," said Livingston, chief of the Bloomington Township Fire Department. "The clasps were adjustable, but they didn't adjust."
The result was a cumbersome, one-size-fits-all apparatus that weighed 58 pounds when fully loaded with water.
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