New tool boosts LCFD safety efforts with EVs

Lake City firefighters Hunter Anderson (from left), Chris Bethea and Gramby Croft look over the department’s new Electric Vehicle Plug Kit and its instruction manual. The newly purchased tool went into service for the department on Monday. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
Lake City firefighters Hunter Anderson (from left), Chris Bethea and Gramby Croft look over the department’s new Electric Vehicle Plug Kit and its instruction manual. The newly purchased tool went into service for the department on Monday. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

With the ever-increasing presence of electric vehicles traveling along local roadways, first responders have had to adopt new safety materials and procedures for both their safety as well as that of m…