On Sunday, December 10th, Extreme Makeover - Home Edition featured the story of Kristina Ripatta, a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) police officer confined to a wheelchair since being shot on duty.

Because of her condition and constant need for physical therapy, Kristina and her husband, Tim, needed a bigger, wheelchair accessible house.

Enter Extreme Makeover - Home Edition.

True to form the team from ABC's hit series moved quickly to demolish the Ripatta's small two-bedroom house in Redondo Beach, CA to make way for the new home they were about to build.

Unlike other episodes, however, this time Ty Pennington and company enlisted the help of the LAPD who arrived with a Lenco BearCat® armored response vehicle.

The BearCat is used for dangerous law enforcement and military operations around the world. These ballistic engineered vehicles are constructed of certified hardened steel armored plate and outfitted with NASG multi-hit ballistic glass. The BearCat is the type of vehicle you could drive into a house if you had to. And that's exactly what they did.

Using the BearCat as a battering ram the LAPD Special Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T) team crashed into the house several times making short work of their demolition effort. The vehicle easily withstood the severe punishment handed out by the stone and wood frame single-story house as it was reduced to kindling. And when the dust settled and the cameras stop rolling, the BearCat had completed its mission without sustaining damage to either its steel plating or its high-quality armored transparencies from North American Specialty Glass.

To learn more about the Lenco BearCat please visit www.armoredtrucks.com. To find out more information on NASG's armored transparencies please return to our Home page.

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