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June 21, 2017

Shower trailer helps remote crews keep clean

  • Bert Martin has a contract to provide showers to firefighters at remote sites.
    • By SAM FRIEDMAN
    Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Four years ago, Bert Martin didn't know anything about mobile shower trailers. That didn't stop him from buying one after he saw that Alaska wildland firefighters wanted one.

    Martin, 46, is a part-time roofer and part-time mobile shower operator. When the wildland firefighting season starts, Martin leaves his roofing job and picks up one of his mobile shower trailers outside his Badger Road-area home. He spends his summers driving the trailers to remote firefighting camps. He sets up awnings next to the trailer and sits outside handing out clean towels and flip-flops to the line of firefighters who want showers.


     
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