Jaws of Life Can't Kill SureFire Centurion

Good Thing I Had My SureFire
Something tells you it's a good idea to take it along. Read how having a SureFire helped save the day for others who listened to their guts.

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I work for an ambulance company as an E.M.T. in Louisiana. Well, one night we responded to an SUV that had run off the road and into an oak tree. It happened to be a bad wreck, and both of the patients needed to be cut out of the car by the fire dept. This was at 0200 in the morning, and the cops on scene were carrying Mag-Lites, which we needed. When we went to turn them on, neither of the Mag-Lites worked.

I went back to my ambulance and grabbed my SureFire Centurion® and E1L. Needless to say, they both worked wonderfully as we worked on our patients, both of whom had fractured femurs. When the fire dept finally got there with the "jaws of life", we were working on our patients. One of the fireman hit my hand, and I looked on in horror as my Centurion went flying out of my hand and hit the pavement, lens down, making an awful cracking sound. I picked it up and looked at it...the Pyrex window was cracked! I turned it on to see if it would still work, and it still worked wonderfully, which was great, as we had a second patient to go and still needed light.

All I want to say is thanks, SureFire, for making my job that much easier by making such well-made equipment and bringing light to some very dark places in Louisiana.

Stephen S.
Ball, LA