When you're in a rush to get to an emergency the last thing you ever want to worry about is car maintenance. That's why the Reno Fire Department and Reno Police Department have maintenance crews to look after their vehicles.

These vehicles are constantly in use which is why it is so important that they are maintained regularly, so they can last a long time. Reno Police cars are serviced every 3,000 miles.

"They have to go fast, they break hard, they turn a lot, lot of city driving, doors are opening closing, breaks are being used, and if it wasn't for the Preventative Maintenace Program we wouldn't be able to push these cars to 100,000 miles," said Zac Haffner, the Maintenance and Operations Manager for the Reno Police Department.

While 100,000 miles sounds pretty normal for all drivers, Haffner told us that when it comes to police cars, they typically have 10,000 hours on the engine with that many miles.

"We kind of like the fact that every hour on the motor equates to about 30 miles worth of driving. 10,000 hours on the motor means we got about 300,000 miles worth of use on that from idling and the way the vehicle's used," Haffner explained.

The Reno Fire Department has their own maintenance team that handles all the services that need to be done from basic oil changes to welding their own equipment.

"A couple of my guys are actually really good at fabricating, so a lot of the things you see mounted on the fire engines or on the fire trucks we customize it, we build it, you look behind me we have metalates, we have tig welding, they build all of that right here in house and we mount it all up," said Jeff Voskamp, Reno Fire Department's Division Chief.

On top of maintaining 180 vehicles, the Reno Fire's mechanics also respond to active fires.

"The one thing that every firefighter uses are SCBA [self-containing breathing apparatus] bottles which contains our breathing air," Voskamp said. "Well, those get filled by an air truck that's run by the mechanics. So, it doesn't matter what time of night, our mechanics, there's only four of them, so literally for a week once a month each one of them is on call."

Chief Voskamp said that his mechanics are a very talented group, and that he is extremely proud to have them.