The Braintree Fire Department is only the third department in the state to get a new hose that will withstand extreme heat and fire for more than an hour without failure. Fire hose burn through is a major issue and led to the death of two firefighters battling a fire on Beacon Street in Boston in 2014 .

Lt. Ed Walsh and Firefighter Michael Kennedy died in the fire after their hose burned through. The two could be heard calling for water, but nothing came through. Ever since his death, Kennedy's mother, Kathy Crosby-Bell, vowed she would do something to change the time to failure standards for fire hoses.

"If you look at the time to failure test, most hoses that are carried in Massachusetts fail in three minutes or less when 12 inches away from a flame," said Crosby-Bell. "I can't tel

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