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NEW DISTRIBUTOR: Continental Fire & Safety Represents Rookie Sidekick Fire Hose Rollers in New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania
Date: March 2008
Deschutes River Manufacturing’s Rookie Sidekick line of portable motorized fire hose rollers will now be available in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania from Continental Fire and Safety. Based in Trenton, New Jersey, Continental Fire and Safety provides innovative and advanced fire, safety and suppression equipment. The company also distributes the Rookie Reloader, for transporting and re-decking rolled fire hose.
NEW DISTRIBUTORS: L.N. Curtis & Sons and Shipman’s Fire Equipment Pick Up Deschutes River Manufacturing’s Rookie Sidekick Fire Hose Roller Line
Date: October 2007
Deschutes River Manufacturing’s Rookie Sidekick line of portable motorized fire hose rollers will now be available through two established distributors, L.N. Curtis & Sons and Shipman's Fire Equipment Co.
PRODUCT UPDATE: The Rookie Sidekick All-In-One Portable Motorized Fire Hose Roller Now Rolls Any Size Fire Hose Up To 7-1/4 Inch Diameter
Date: September 2007
Deschutes River Manufacturing has improved its widely used portable motorized fire hose roller, The Rookie Sidekick All-In-One (AIO). By simply moving two pins, the updated AIO instantly adjusts to roll hose of any diameter, from 1-1/2 to 7-1/4 inches.
BEND
INNOVATOR LOOKS TO MAKE FIRE WORK EASIER - 'The Rookie'
fire hose roller saves hours of exhausting grunt work
Anna Sowa - The Bend Bulletin
Date: June 3, 2007
After firefighters squelch the last embers of a blaze
and their 100-foot hoses fall limp without water, someone
must roll the roughly 100-pound hoses up, pushing remaining
air and water out, and lug them back to the truck. Bend
resident David Johnston says his Rookie-brand portable
fire hose rollers save rookie firefighters from doing
the grunt work.
NEVER
HAND ROLL FIRE HOSE AGAIN: The Rookie Sidekick All-In-One
Portable Motorized Fire Hose Roller Effortlessly Rolls
Any Size Fire Hose
Date: February, 2007
With The Rookie Sidekick All-In-One (AIO), firefighters
can wave good-bye to rolling fire hose by hand. Deschutes
River Manufacturing, creator of the world’s only
portable motorized fire hose rollers, has developed
a one-machine solution for rolling hose of any diameter,
from 1-1/2 to 6 inches.
DESCHUTES
RIVER MANUFACTURING DEMONSTRATES FIRE POWER
Publication: Cascade Business News
Date: January 8th, 2007
Deschutes River Manufacturing recently demonstrated
its power fire hose rollers for 400 industrial firefighters
from across the U.S. at the Texas Engineering Extension
Service's Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station,
Texas. The company also donated two of its power hose
rollers with portable stands and a reloader to the TEEX
Emergency Services Training Institute.
ROOKIE
SIDEKICK POWER HOSE ROLLER TESTED IN TEXAS
Publication - Fire Apparatus
Date: January, 2007
Deschutes River Manufacturingrecently demonstrated its
power fire hoserollers for 400 industrial firefighters
fromacross the U.S.at the Texas EngineeringExtension
Serviceís Brayton Fire TrainingField in College Station,Texas.The
com-pany also donated two ofits power hoserollers with
portable stands,and areloader to the facilityís Emergency
Ser-vices Training Institute (ESTI).
30
DAY TRIAL AVAILABLE FOR WORLD'S ONLY MOTORIZED PORTABLE
FIRE HOSE ROLLERS
Novemember 20, 2006
Deschutes River Manufacturing, creator of the world's
only portable motorized fire hose rollers, has introduced
a 30-day trial program for firefighting professionals
to tryout The Rookie Sidekick hose rollers and The Rookie
Reloader. Wildland, municipal and industrial fire suppression
organizations pay only the cost of shipping the equipment
and may put it through the paces without any obligation
to buy.
ROOKIE
POWER FIRE HOSE ROLLERS ASSIST FIREFIGHTERS AT TEEX
EMERGENCY SERVICES TRAINING INSTITUTE
September 27, 2006
Deschutes River Manufacturing recently demonstrated
its power fire hose rollers for 400 industrial firefighters
from across the U.S. at the Texas Engineering Extension
Service's Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station,
Texas. The company also donated two of its power hose
rollers with portable stands and a reloader to the TEEX
Emergency Services Training Institute.
DRM NOW OFFERS
THE ROOKIE SIDEKICK IN A 6-INCH LDH MODEL
February 23, 2006
Deschutes River Manufacturing has expanded its LDH
series to include the Rookie Sidekick 6-inch LDH (RSLDH6)
hose roller as well as the 5-inch LDH (RSLDH5) roller,
according to David Johnston, owner of the small manufacturing
company based in Central Oregon.
"We've had requests from industrial fire fighters
to produce The Rookie Sidekick LDH (tm) to handle
even larger diameter hose," explained Johnston.
"Which makes sense since the whole point is to
save firefighters' time and energy by alleviating
the backbreaking task of hand rolling fire hoses,
especially 5- and 6-inch hoses."
THE ROOKIE MAKES
A DIFFERENCE
Cascade Business News-Small Manufacturing Edition
November 16, 2005
Life can change in an instant, but sometimes that's
a good thing. At least it was for David Johnston.
Johnston worked for Willamette Industries for 27
years, the last 10 as a millwright, before he learned
the mill would be closing in 2002 and he'd be losing
his job. Knowing he needed some work, a friend asked
him to build six portable hose rollers for the local
forest service office.
CENTRAL OREGON MANUFACTURER
INTRODUCES NEW 5” LARGE DIAMETER HOSE ROLLER
April 22nd, 2005
BEND, OR – Deschutes River Manufacturing’s
(DRM) RookieTM and Rookie SidekickTM products continue
to save firefighters time and energy by alleviating
the backbreaking task of hand rolling fire hoses.
CENTRAL
OREGON MANUFACTURER ROLLS OUT NEW EQUIPMENT FOR FIRE
FIGHTING INDUSTRY
December 15, 2004
BEND, OR — The Deschutes River Manufacturing
(DRM) RookieTM and Rookie SidekickTM products continue
to save firefighters time and energy by alleviating
the backbreaking task of hand rolling fire hoses.
Deschutes River Manufacturing
65533 Old Bend - Redmond Hwy
Bend, OR 97701
toll free phone: 877-868 -1951
fax: 541-389-4218
e-mail: the-rookie@bendbroadband.com
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