Case Studies
KME Fire Apparatus, an internationally renowned manufacturer of fire apparatus, has delivered eleven KME custom trucks to Hamilton Fire Department in Ontario, Canada. These trucks will join dozens of KME vehicles currently in service in Hamilton. The Hamilton Fire Department operates out of 30 locations across the city with 26 emergency response stations. Their 430-square-mile response area includes high-rise buildings, heavy industry and rural farm land, requiring a variety of apparatus. The r...
E-ONE, a subsidiary of REV Group and a renowned manufacturer of fire apparatus, is pleased to announce the recent delivery of three different industrial custom pumpers for Imperial Oil, Citgo Petroleum and Collins Fire Department. With a great variety of extinguishing agent systems, as well as single and dual-deck monitors flowing up to 6000 GPM on these trucks, E-ONE’s industrial pumpers are versatile and durable. From petroleum companies to local fire departments, these trucks were engi...
The Thomas Fire in December 2017 claimed two lives, burned 281,893 acres, and destroyed more than 1,000 structures before it was contained on Jan. 12, 2018. The Montecito Fire Protection District (MFPD), a small coastal community in California, saw the loss of only seven structures, a remarkably low number given the extreme fire behavior it experienced. The low fire loss was due to the successful mitigation strategies the Montecito community pursued for over two decades beginning in 1994....
The Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association recently voted to endorse a school safety application known as Rave Mobile Safety. The Rave Panic Button would be deployed to all K-12 public schools across Oklahoma according to OSA executive director Ray McNair. “The Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association recently became aware of the Rave Panic Button school safety program via Arkansas, where it is deployed statewide to over 1,000 schools, and recently won a legislative policy award by the Sou...
Men and women of the Tuftonboro Fire Department welcomed the delivery of their new Toyne Tailored Pumper Tanker. Bearing the “Engine 2” unit ID, this fully customized pumper tanker will join alongside the department’s other Toyne apparatus, “Engine 1”. With the new addition, Tuftonboro fire crews are better equipped to take the call. Tanker Capabilities Stall-built with bolted stainless steel, Toyne mounted the pumper tanker body on a Spartan Gladiator MFD chassis...
Patol’s experience and expertise in protecting industrial environments from the threat posed by fire has seen the company supply its Linear Heat Detection Cable (LHDC) to one of the UK’s major producers of cement. Cemex is a manufacturer of a wide range of British cements from three UK factories, using locally quarried materials and additives to produce cements that are employed in construction projects throughout the UK. At its flagship site in Rugby, a number of...
Avinor, the Norwegian airport operator has equipped additional regional airports with Rosenbauer fire fighting vehicles. A dense aviation network connects the Norwegian Namsos Airport, also referred to as Høknesøra Airport, with more than 40 regional airports throughout the country of Norway. Namsos, located about 500 km northwest of Oslo on the central Norwegian coast, is one of the smallest airports in the country. Here, only so-called STOL (short take-off and landing) machines...
Almost half a million passengers and more than 50,000 tons of freight were transported through Linz Airport in Linx, Austria in 2018. This makes it the fifth largest airport in Austria in terms of passenger traffic and the second largest in terms of freight transport. PANTHERs aRFF vehicles As an airport of this category, it needs two high-performance aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) vehicles - which is why two Rosenbauer PANTHERs are doing their duty in Linz. An additional Rosenbauer A...
Ljubljana (known as Laibach in Germany), is not only the capital of Slovenia, but also a cultural center of Southeastern Europe. Modern large buildings as well as a picturesque old town with narrow alleys, small bridges, and angular buildings of past centuries bear witness to this. This is a special challenge for the emergency personnel of the city's professional fire department, the Ljubljana Fire Department. When purchasing a new turntable ladder, they therefore opted for the L32A-XS from Rose...
Commissioner General of the F.D.R.E Federal Police Commission, Endashaw Tassew, announced the deployment of Addis Ababa’s regional Project 25 (P25) public safety radio communications system by Motorola Solutions. The deployed ASTRO 25 secure land mobile radio (LMR) system covers the greater Addis Ababa region, allowing secure and reliable communications for the F.D.R.E. Federal Police Commission. “Critical communications is a core component of any police work,” said Commission...
Tylosand is one of Sweden’s most popular beaches and during the summer there can be more than 40,000 visitors on the beach every day. They were the first beach in Sweden to have lifeguards patrolling its shores as early as 1958. While most visitors enjoy their summer on the beach, at times guests may find themselves in a difficult situation. The lifeguard’s on Tylosand beach operate on a completely voluntary basis, patrolling the beaches daily throughout Summer ensuring the public&r...
Recently fire crews were called to a fire at Felixstowe docks, the UK’s busiest port. A fire had broken out in one of the dockside cranes. While the fire in the ship-to-shore crane was small, dock workers were moved to a place of safety and operations were halted temporarily. This incident could have been much more serious. Docks and ports handle many potential hazards such as fertilizers, animal feed, and wood chip. Additionally, the engines of large cranes and vehicles used to move carg...
A fire at Veolia’s recycling center off the Old Kent Road was likely caused by a wrongly-disposed lithium battery, the company said. Veolia issued a warning to Southwark residents to safely dispose of their waste after the fire, to which four fire engines and 25 firefighters were called. There were no injuries, added the London Fire Brigade – but it said the incident could’ve been worse if a sprinkler system hadn’t been in place. 500kg of recyclable materials were damaged...
Motorola Solutions has completed the rollout of a new mobility managed service to Victoria Police, enabling increased situational awareness, safety and productivity on the front line. Officers across the state have received 9,398 mobile devices loaded with smart applications to give them a technological edge to protect community safety. Mobility managed service Motorola Solutions’ complete, end-to-end managed service enables Victoria Police members to focus on core policing activities ra...
Set to stand at 62-storeys high, 22 Bishopsgate in the City of London will, on completion, become the second-tallest building in Western Europe. The 278m office building will offer 1.275 million sq. ft of high specification office space, as well as eight community spaces, covering over 100,000 sq ft, including an innovation hub, curated gallery space, fresh food market, gym and wellbeing retreat. Once completed, Advanced will protect both of Western Europe’s tallest buildings, with 22 Bish...
The State Laboratory has been the first transnational state research institution in Germany to deal with a wide range of topics in consumer protection, radiation protection, animal disease control and disaster control for more than 10 years. In the four-storey building, 249 m² of laboratories with security level 3 are protected with a modern AQUASYS high-pressure water mist system. In order to meet the special requirements of laboratory operations, the fire protection concept was implement...
Oakland County is enhancing the safety of residents, guests and businesses by improving the ability of first responders to communicate with each other during emergencies, including seamless interoperability with neighboring counties as well as state and federal agencies, County Executive L. Brooks Patterson has announced. ASTRO 25 LMR network The county has entered into a contract with Motorola Solutions to replace its aging public safety radio system with the ASTRO 25 land-mobile radio (LMR)...
Emergency Reporting® (ER), the pioneer in cloud-based reporting and records management software for Fire and EMS agencies, is excited to welcome new customer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Division of Fire and Rescue Services (MD). Emergency Reporting’s Fire and EMS package will be utilized by the NIH Division of Fire and Rescue Services on the Ultra Secure hosting platform to provide fire, emergency medical, hazardous materials, and specialized rescue services. Records man...
Pierce Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company, announced that it has delivered seven pumpers built on the Pierce Saber custom chassis mounted with Canadian company MAXIMETAL’s firefighting body configuration. The “MaxiSaber” apparatus represents the first seven of the 35 awarded pumper trucks to be built and delivered to the City of Montreal Fire Department over the next five years. Since instituting an agreement in 2015 with...
Global safety products manufacturer and service provider, VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has won a contract to supply CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, with personal protective equipment (PPE) and servicing for approximately 16,000 passengers annually flying to and from the company’s platforms in the North Sea. VIKING has already begun providing helicopter carry-on safe equipment, survival suits, lifejackets, armbands and helicopter transit bags for...
A highly sophisticated Taktis fire alarm and control panel from Kentec, a life safety control systems manufacturer, is providing the highest levels of fire safety at Brenntag UK & Ireland’s facility in Sunderland. Brenntag is a market leader in chemical distribution with a global network of more than 580 locations across 73 countries. Its North East team moved into the new site in Sunderland, one of the company’s 24 sites across the UK & Ireland, last December. Comprehensiv...
KME Fire Apparatus, globally renowned manufacturer of fire apparatus, announces the delivery of six KME custom pumpers to the City of Atlanta, Georgia. These six pumpers will join the existing fleet of 45 KME pumpers already deployed within the city limits. Severe Service cab These six new pumpers are built on KME’s Severe Service cab and will serve the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department’s 35 fire stations, including five stations at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airpor...
A prison in the south of England with an operating capacity of 690 prisoners is currently being comprehensively renovated as part of a five-year construction work program. Work has already been completed and includes changes in the health sector, a new electrical system, a new visitor complex and the modernization of the fire protection concept. Firefighting system AQUASYS developed an optimized firefighting system for prison cells and common security areas. This system must ensure efficient c...
Following their initial integration of a TETRA system across the four airports in 2012, MAHB has decided to upgrade their hand-portable devices to the latest in TETRA technology, to enable further efficiency gains from the use of data applications. Sepura SC2 series radios The SC2 series radios are built for noisy environments such as airports, providing MAHB with clear communications whatever the weather, or air traffic levels. The SC2 series hand-portable radios are resilient, intelligent an...
Motorola Solutions’ authorized reseller BASS Systems has been selected, under the tender issued by the National Pre-Hospital Health Emergency Center, to equip over 500 ambulances in Moldova with state-of-the-art TETRA digital two-way radios from Motorola Solutions. The future-leading communication solutions enable medical staff to provide better medical services to Moldovan citizens. Within the framework of the contract, Motorola Solutions will deliver about 1,000 TETRA digital two-way ra...
At insulation manufacturer Glava, they manage high risk and high production volumes. Hence, they are dependent on an efficient fire detection system. Here, they tell us why they chose Autronica. 60 tons of melted glass, and temperatures up to 1300 degrees Celsius: At the Glava manufacturing plant in the Norwegian town of Stjørdal, the production runs non-stop. The temperature is high when shattered glass is molten and spun into insulation, and the consequences of an incident in the smelti...
Toyne, a fire apparatus manufacturer, recently delivered two customized pumpers to the Forks Fire Department, stationed in the town of Cheektowaga, New York. Both apparatus received a welcomed arrival after a 900-mile journey from Toyne’s production floor in Breda, Iowa, to their new home along the Great Lakes. Equipped with Toyne Pumpers, the fire department can continue its commitment to providing the best emergency services for residents. Pumper Specifications Constructed with m...
Patol has completed its latest industrial fire project, working with designers and installers Hall & Kay Fire Engineering and P. Gibson (Services) to provide protection for the UK operation of a global specialty chemicals company. The UK facility of Ashland Industrial Chemicals is based in Kidderminster, part of a business that has been operating for almost a century, starting out as an oil company to diversify into a chemicals conglomerate serving a wide range of markets, from construction...
When the Dusseldorf Fire Department's diver squadron is alerted, they are instantly on the move. After a minute of set-up time, the crew is sitting in the vehicle and on its way to the scene. Everything it needs for the mission is there already on board the water rescue truck, a Rosenbauer AT on a MAN TGM 13,290 with 290hp, all-wheel drive and 13 ton gross vehicle weight. The lifeboat, if necessary, is already attached as well. Water rescue truck Dusseldorf Fire Department's water rescue truck...
Spectators, players, and property at India’s Mohali International Cricket Stadium are being protected by a highly-sophisticated Taktis panel from Kentec, a manufacturer of life-critical control systems. The Taktis 8 loop addressable fire panel, installed by Firehut Commercial Equipment Pvt Ltd, was chosen by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to replace a faulty system, and to provide a reliable and user-friendly control panel. 700 detectors and devices The Mohali International Cri...
