Gear Keeper’s Add-A-Clip to Help Firefighters Manage Gear

Laden with large hand-held tools like Eckert Hooks and running through blinding smoke during a dangerous fire, firefighters must react quickly when it comes to making a life-saving decision. There’s no time to waste fumbling for small, simple hand tools and accessories like gloves, scissors, knives and flashlights. The inexpensive Add-A-Clip devices will prove to invaluable when hands need to be free.

The Gear Keeper Add-A-Clip product family offers a choice of eight different clip models that can attach virtually any small hand tool to webbing straps, turnout coats, buoyancy compensators or backpacks. Attached to the user by a threaded stainless steel pin stud that penetrates material, the series offers options to secure tools from a simple split ring to snap clips and side activated quick release models. Also included are flashlight stabilizers and glove holders. The Add-A-Clip series include the following models:

ACO-1001 Plastic Snap Clip ($8.49)

ACO-1002 Stainless Steel Split Ring ($8.49

ACO-1003 Side Quick Release with split ring ($10.49)

ACO-1004 Stainless Steel Snap Clip ($13.49)

ACO-1005 Stainless Steel Swivel Snap Clip ($16.49)

ACO-1006 Glove Holder ($12.49)

ACO-1007 Brass Snap Clip ($11.49)

ACO-1008 Flashlight Stabilizer ($8.99)

For more information about Add-A-Clip models log on to: http://gearkeeper.com/scuba/add-a-clip.html

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