Antigua and Barbuda Fire Industry News

Force 21 Vietnam officially opened its doors to the local Vietnam market on 9 May 2019. It marked the occasion by having an opening ceremony, where they invited customers, partners, and the Singapore management team to grace the ceremony. Force 21 Vietnam is positioned as a Value-Added Distributor of Smart City products, focusing on the area of Safety and Security. It works closely with the system Integration partners to bring value to their customers in Vietnam. Open concept The new office i...

For the last 200 years, firefighters have been using inefficient manual methods to track their crews’ movement. Incident commanders need to know the location and status of responders on site. Technology adds a new element to tracking crews’ movements. Firefighters on scene can now be electronically tracked to ensure they are rotated out of danger before their allotted time expires. The officer in charge – standing outside the scene with the rugged tablet in hand – can mo...

March Fire Station recently hosted a week-long Safety Zone for primary school students from across Fenland. The Safety Zone, organized by the Fenland Community Safety Partnership, saw more than 450 students attend during the week to help develop their understanding of being safe at home and outdoors. Firefighters from March, along with the Service’s community champions, delivered information about fire safety in the home and staying safe around open water. Other work stations included ro...

The Rabun County Fire Services, located in the northeast corner of Georgia, has placed a Lake Assault boat fireboat into service on Lake Rabun, an 835-acre reservoir with 25 miles of shoreline. The new craft provides fire suppression and emergency response services for homeowners, visitors, and Georgia Power facilities located on the lake. emergency response performance “The combination of hydroelectric plants and a growing number of high-end waterfront single-family homes in a region s...

Following a report by BBC’s Watchdog that highlights the hundreds of new build homes, which posed a fire risk, everybody is once again reminded of the dangerous gap between the expectation of safety, the reality of building regulations, and the performance of buildings. Lack of communication  People assume that the buildings are safe, but if a building is built to regulations, what does that mean? What do people hear? Is it that the building complies with the statutory minimums, so...

mySidewalk is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the renowned information and knowledge resource on fire, electrical, and related hazards. This collaboration project will combine industry-renowned NFPA codes and standards, including NFPA 1300, Standard on Community Risk Assessment and Community Risk Reduction Plan Development and related information, with mySidewalk’s innovative Community Intelligence Platform to create a us...

E-ONE, a subsidiary of REV Group and a manufacturer of fire apparatus, begins delivery of the first of 25 HazMat vehicles to the United States Air Force. The first HazMat vehicle will be transported to a destination in the Middle East and is painted in a matte finish, desert sand. The additional 24 vehicles will be going to U.S. Air Force bases around the world. All 25 of the U.S. Air Force HazMat vehicles are being built on an E-ONE Typhoon cab/chassis. Nineteen of the trucks will be 4×2...

A great atmosphere, highly motivated teams, and promising creative ideas for digital challenges – all this happened during the three intensive working days of the Multi-Corporate Hackathon, which took place at the end of April 2019 at the impressive premises of the brand-new KTM Motohall in Mattighofen, Braunau am Inn, Austria. As already reported in the blog post, “Let’s Hack – Multi-Corporate Hackathon 2019” at the beginning of May, the Automobile Cluster of the...

PACCAR will hold meetings with financial analysts and institutional shareholders commencing at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time on May 21, 2019, in New York, New York. A real-time Webcast of these events will be available on the company’s website. Webcast replays will be available following the event at the same link until June 30, 2019.

While the investigation continues, preliminary reports from Paris suggest that the April 15, 2019 fire that devastated the 850-year old Notre Dame Cathedral was most likely caused by an electrical short circuit. Firefighters moving quickly up hundreds of steps to reach the attic level where the fire originated were credited with preventing the damage from being even worse. The response of 500 firefighters was able to bring the fire under control within 5 hours, but only after the cathedral&rsqu...

Follow these steps when a required fire protection system is out of service for repair, replacement, or another problem. Like any electronic or mechanical device, fire protection systems require periodic maintenance to assure a high degree of reliability. Occasionally, they are damaged and need repair. Often, they need replacement or upgrades. Regardless of the reason, there are times fire protection systems are shut down on purpose. Shutdown steps If there is a planned shutdown, advise...

Often considered the unofficial kick-off to summer, Memorial Day weekend includes lots of celebrations featuring cookouts and barbeques. As the holiday and warmer months near, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reminds everyone to follow some basic precautions for safely grilling outdoors. Basic precautions for safe grilling According to NFPA’s statistics, in 2013-2017, U.S. fire departments responded to an annual average of 10,200 home fires involving grills, hibachis, or b...

Staff and air ambulance helicopters at Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance headquarters in Chatham are being protected from the risk of fire by a fire safety solution that centres around the new Taktis addressable fire panel from Kentec. The HQ main office building is monitored by the Taktis panel and hard-wired Hochiki detectors, with wireless versions specified to cover the helicopter hangar. Ease of installation Alvin Lewis, Operations Manager at CSG Fire and Security, the company that i...

Many workplaces contain areas that are considered to be confined spaces. A confined space is an enclosed or partially enclosed area that, while it may be big enough for a worker to enter, is not designed for a person to work in regularly. These spaces often lack resources that would normally be found in areas designed for continuous occupancy, such as proper ventilation systems, lighting, or areas that would allow for easy entry (such as stairwells or doorways). Common confined spaces can...

GearGrid’s products are being used by all of the student-athletes at Hutchinson High School, located in Hutchinson, Minnesota, daily in practice. “Each sport has its own storage cage. They have padlocks that only the coaches can access,” said Thayne Johnson, Hutchinson’s Activities Director. GearGrid’s storage solutions These storage cages replaced Hutchinson High School’s old flimsy cabinets that weren’t holding up to the various requirements of the s...

On May 18, 1999, the inaugural meeting of the International Fire Sprinkler Association was held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Representatives of ten companies along with staff from the National Fire Sprinkler Association agreed on the establishment of a new organization that would work to increase global awareness of the effectiveness of automatic sprinklers and other water-based fire suppression systems. From the start, the IFSA founders envisioned a supporting role for IFSA: it would be an org...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is hosting a free active shooter/hostile event program for emergency managers, policymakers, fire, police, emergency medical services (EMS), school officials and facility managers in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Active shooter program Attendees will benefit from a half-day public session that will feature keynote speaker Michele Gay, Co-Founder of Safe & Sound Schools, who lost her daughter during the Sandy Hook Elementary S...

The fire protection of substations to maintain a secure power supply is of particular importance for large energy suppliers. Due to the rapid and efficient operation of high-pressure water mist fire-fighting systems, the proportion of protected transformer systems using this technology continues to rise worldwide. AQUASYS has developed a unique design for a large energy utility that benefits from the advantages of water mist systems compared to its conventional spray flood systems to minimize w...

Recent news headlines about devastating fires have left many building owners and small business proprietors concerned about what a fire loss would do to their facilities and operations. Unlike larger organizations, they don’t have the luxury of employing risk management and loss prevention experts to analyze the risk and develop procedures to ensure business continuity. White paper offers practical advice on fire safety Small organizations don’t have the budgets that large compani...

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) has issued safety advice about the use of incense sticks after they were involved in two separate house fires. Crews attended a house fire in Keyston in Huntingdonshire on the morning of April 30, while less than an hour later crews were called to a similar fire in Soham. Spreading aromatic scents A fire service spokesman said: “These fires were both started by incense sticks that had been left unattended. Lighting incense is a common and po...

Of the 673 new schools that have been built and opened under the government’s flagship school program, only 105 were fitted with sprinklers. With hundreds of schools in the United Kingdom, witnessing a fire each year, this alarming statistic once again emphasizes that money spent on dealing with the aftermath of fires should be spent on sprinklers instead. The Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA) shares the concerns of Labour Party MP and former teacher, Stephanie Peacock, who stated “...

The Viking Corporation, a global pioneer in fire protection and life safety systems, has added a new 3.0 (43) K-factor residential flat plate concealed pendent sprinkler to its leading Freedom® residential product line. The new Model VK496 is cULus Listed with a flow rate of only 8 GPM (30 L/min), and a pressure requirement of only 7.1 PSI (0.49 bar) in a 12 x 12 ft (3,7 x, 3,7 m) room size. With its smaller K-factor and lower flow rates, the new glass bulb sprinkler is appropriate for NFPA...

E811 responded as the 2nd due engine to a box alarm with reported entrapment at an apartment complex in Langley Park, MD. Upon arrival, E811 pulled a 400′ backup line and checked for extension from an exterior fire into the structure. E811 returned to service.  

Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Director Kelly Susewind, USDA Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen, and Regional Forester Glenn Casamassa signed a Shared Stewardship Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), calling it a model for other states to follow. The MOU, only the second of its kind in the nation, establishes a framework for Washington state and the USDA Forest Service to work collaboratively toward mutual goals and effectively re...

The Viking Corporation, a global provider of fire protection and life safety systems, has added a new 3.0 (43) K-factor residential flat plate concealed pendent sprinkler to its leading Freedom residential product line. The new model VK496 is cULus Listed with a flow rate of only 8 GPM (30 L/min), and a pressure requirement of only 7.1 PSI (0.49 bar) in a 12 x 12 ft. (3.7 x 3.7 m) room size. With its smaller K-factor and lower flow rates, the new glass bulb sprinkler is appropriate for NFPA 13D...

Seek Thermal announces The Tech Tribune has named the company as its choice as ‘2019 Best Tech Startup in Santa Barbara.’ This represents the first time Seek Thermal has been selected for this honor. The Tech Tribune staff considered several factors when selecting ‘Best Tech Startups in Santa Barbara’ candidates including revenue potential, leadership team, brand and product traction, and competitive landscape. To be considered for this list, all candidate companies must...

Who’s behind the tools at HURST Jaws of Life? It’s people like Bradley Stevens, a man who has a passion for racing cars and motorcycles and whose job helps ensure first responders can get people out of them. “I’ve been in and around cars in every way you can imagine – driving them, fixing them, racing them,” Bradley said. Unfortunately, he added, racing sometimes means wrecking. “You fix one thing, then it’s another. And racing doesn’t pay t...

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), falls continue to be the leading cause of fatalities in the construction industry. To help combat this sobering, but preventable statistic, globally renowned safety equipment manufacturer - MSA Safety Incorporated has announced that it will conduct free fall protection training sessions, from May 6 to May 10, 2019, during OSHA’s annual National Safety Stand-Down Week. Fall protection training As part of this week-lon...

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), falls continue to be the leading cause of fatalities in the construction industry. To help combat this sobering, but preventable, statistic, global safety equipment manufacturer MSA Safety Incorporated announced that it will conduct free fall protection training sessions, from May 6 through May 10, during OSHA's annual National Safety Stand-Down. OSHA-compliant fall protection training As part of this week-long safety blitz...

POK S.A.S builds a wide range of monitors. Originally these devices were intended to use pressures and flows beyond the range of portable equipment, whether by one or more firefighters. Fifty years ago, there were monitors for fixed installations such as those fitted to pump boats or fuel depots and oil refineries. Other monitors were movable because they were mounted on wheeled platforms, either movable manually or on the road. The flow rates and pressures of these devices have always depended...