When you’re on the fire ground, every second and every movement counts. Ernie Young from Rosenbauer Group joins us to demonstrate how the Smart Aerial system simplifies complex maneuvers. Watch as he walks through the “Clear the Bed” function, showing just how intuitive and efficient it is to get your aerial out of the cradle and into the fight.

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  So the dead man’s on the back, so it’s a squeeze in on the handle. Okay. And it’s a electric over hydraulic valve, so it likes to be open. So it’s fine to go ahead and just wide open that valve. I don’t have to feather in and feather out. Just give her a good pull back towards you And as you see, as you start that left-hand swing, it wasn’t gonna let you rotate till it was clear. Go high, yeah. So I always just fire up with all three of my functions, and that- they’ll clear as you go. Okay.

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