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Sebring Police Add ResQMe Escape Tool

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Corporal Viviane Buck demonstrates the ResQMe auto escape tool on a vehicle Friday at Duck's Auto Body Shop in Sebring.

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By JOE SEELIG

Highlands Today

Published: August 16, 2008

SEBRING - Police, along with staff at Duck's Body Shop and Garage, demonstrated Friday a new public safety tool the department recently added in its arsenal called the ResQMe Mini Keychain Auto Escape Tool, by shattering a window on a junk car.

The business is located at 1153 Hawthorne Drive, just off of the Sebring Parkway, in downtown Sebring.

"At least our officers will be prepared if it is needed," said Sebring Police Cmdr. Steve Carr. "In the event of a car fire, it's an affective way to break a window with little chance of them being hit by flying glass."

The tool also has a blade to quickly cut through a stuck seat belt, Carr added.

"I know we'll have to use them," Carr said. "It happens each year one or two times when a child gets locked inside a car and we have to break the glass."

With this tool the glass does not go flying, it just drops down, Carr said.

"In the summertime when the air is off you don't have time to wait for a locksmith," Carr said.

The department received about four dozen of the tools at a cost of about $8.50 each.

Joe Seelig can be reached at (863) 386-5834 or jseelig@highlandstoday.com .

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