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The Verona Volunteer Fire Company in Verona, Pennsylvania added more power to its fleet after receiving a new pumper from Toyne, a fire apparatus manufacturer. The pumper is loaded with firefighting equipment and technology that make it a valuable addition to the fire company, giving Verona firefighters more tools to respond to calls in their community. The pumper is loaded with firefighting equipment and technology that make it a valuable addition to the fire company Pumper characte...
From April 26th to 28th, 2018 the Preventica International Congress and Exhibition for Global Risk Management will be held. One of the POK distributors in Morocco, PROTEC INCENDIE, will be exhibiting at booth F05. This exhibition confirmed its status as a meeting platform for all risk management professionals in Morocco and Africa. It will bring together, as last year, more than 300 personalities who will meet for its inauguration on April 26th. During 3 days, numerous innovations and exchanges...
Britannia is pleased to announce that it is a member of Composites UK. This trade body’s aim is to support the industry in composite production. Their P50 fire extinguisher range is an innovative composite product that negates the need for annual service contracts.
The UK’s composite door manufacturer, door-stop International announces the launch of its new glazed fire door side panels. The third-party audited by CERTIFIRE, the side panels are available in nine frame colors and three glass styles, providing the perfect partner to a door-stop fire door. Fire safety requirements The new addition has been designed to complement the fire door range launched in 2016 The new addition has been designed to complement the fire door range, which was s...
With 20 years of building emergency vehicles, 1st Attack Engineering of Waterloo has added water tankers to its lineup. The company built its first water tanker for the LaGrange Fire Department. LaGrange Fire Chief Dave Elick contacted Jeffrey Cook, president of 1st Attack Engineering, to build the tanker, the company said. LaGrange chose to use a 1999 International chassis for its tanker. The fire department took delivery of the tanker on February 22. The truck is equipped with a 2,400-gallon...
The essential performance requirement of a fire blanket is to extinguish a cooking oil fire as detailed in BS EN 1869:1997. Some of the facts about fire blanket performance are stated as below: The fire blanket must have the ability to eliminate oxygen from the burning cooking oil to initially extinguish the fire. Good flexibility and draping qualities of the blanket are essential to achieve this aim. The design of the fire blanket must then allow the oil to gradually cool to...
Bronto Skylift’s longterm partner Height for Hire has just celebrated their company’s 40-year milestone. During this time, Bronto Skylift has supplied 2.46 kilometers of Bronto platforms to them. Bronto Skylift is truly appreciate of Height for Hire’s approach in their business. They go the extra mile to understand their customer needs and find a solution to every situation. This is what Bronto Skylift does too. The decades of Bronto Skylift’s own product development hav...
A portable misting system installed by Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service, in partnership with mental health charity Suffolk Mind, prevented a significant fire in a South Cambridgeshire home. The misting unit is designed to suppress a fire to prevent it from spreading throughout a property, similar in principle to a sprinkler system. A portable misting system is a self-contained unit and works differently, as it also helps with keeping property damage to a minimum while suppressing the fire...
At the end of 2017, the entire team of the French sales department of POK S.A.S carried out a titanic work in order to present the best possible offer to the UGAP call for tenders concerning 4 lots of fire equipment. UGAP tender offer for fire equipment UGAP is a public industrial and commercial establishment, created in 1985 and placed under the dual supervision of the French Finance Ministry, on the one hand, and the education minister, on the other. To date, it is the only French ‘gen...
Research undertaken by the Building Research Establishment in association with the FIA and a range of manufacturers of detection products has led to some momentous discoveries in the field of fire detection and alarm: more sophisticated multi-sensor detectors really are more effective at reducing false alarms than the ‘standard’ smoke alarms. The research, undertaken by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and the University of Duisburg in Germany, and part-funded by the FIA, u...
ASL’s Head of Business Development Neil Voce features in the March 2018 edition of Installation magazine with a thought leadership article providing insight into hybrid EN54 / Dante solutions for large multi-purpose venues, including stadia and entertainment venues. Single system solution In this engaging article Neil Voce waxes lyrical about the features and benefits to venue operators (and visitors) of installing such a system. A recent project at U-Arena, France features a hybrid EN5...
Britannia Fire’s UK-developed and made composite fire extinguisher is to be installed across Heathrow Airport’s terminals. Britannia Fire’s P50 – the first extinguisher cased in recyclable composite with a 20-year life span – has been chosen to protect the airport as part of its ambitious sustainability strategy, Heathrow 2.0. Manufactured in rural Norfolk, the P50 will replace 5000 traditional metal extinguishers across Heathrow’s sites because of its lower...
Erickson Incorporated, an aerospace manufacturer and aerial services company, contracted with Balfour Beatty to build a transmission line for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSE), connecting renewable energy from the Dorenell Wind Farm to a transmission network at Blackhillock, Scotland between Aberdeen and Inverness. The project provides new sources of electricity with minimal impact on the land environment and is the first of its kind for Erickson in Europe. President of Commercia...
The Viking Corporation, a global provider in fire protection and life safety systems, has announced their new 8.0 K-factor Light and Ordinary Hazard Standard Coverage Dry Horizontal sprinklers with expanded UL Listings. Models include Standard Response glass bulb, Quick Response glass bulb, and Quick Response fusible link designs. Due to their newly-designed deflectors, these sprinklers are UL Listed for installation with the deflector from 4 to 12 inches below the ceiling. This feature gives c...
Potter announces the launch of the AFC Series of Addressable Fire Panels and ARC-100 Releasing Panel. The AFC-50, AFC-100, and AFC-1000 Fire Panels offer the highest point capacity available in the distribution channel ranging from 50 to 1270 points. The entire line has the same enhanced IP features as Potter's current line of panels. The AFC/ARC panels use the new PAD100 line of addressable SLC devices. Potter is extremely proud of these new panels and SLC devices because they are 100% as...
Great Bend, Kansas is home to a new pumper after the Great Bend Fire/EMS Department received the apparatus in mid-January, 2018. Built by premier fire apparatus manufacturer, Toyne, Inc., the pumper will assist in the firefighting efforts of the department, which serves 156 square miles of Baron County, in Kansas. Toyne pumper Toyne, Inc. built Great Bend's pumper on a Spartan Gladiator LFD 10-inch chassis Toyne, Inc. built Great Bend's pumper on a Spartan Gladiator LFD 10-inch chassis and is...
With public awareness now high around fire safety, the glazing component of structures is more important than ever as fire-resistant glass is an important requirement on many projects. Fire-resistant glass is specialist glass that has been proven to provide a period protection against fire during a Fire Resistance Test. The degree of protection offered depends on the type of fire rated glass used but generally speaking all fire rated glass acts as a barrier to help prevent the spread of flames...
The devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower continues to spark debate among experts. At the annual conference of the Association for the Promotion of German Fire Protection (vfdb) in Duisburg, Richard Mills from the management team of the London Fire Department will report on the findings and consequences of the accident. Although the police investigation is not yet complete, the officer from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) will give an impression of the complicated fire-fighting a...
Emergency Reporting (ER) offers customers who already have the Maintenance Module a new web app, FuelER. This one-of-a-kind app helps first responders easily and efficiently track fuel usage on their mobile devices for each apparatus used by their department to comply with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and follow best practices for fuel documentation. It is available at FuelER.ersapps.com. Many Fire/Rescue departments have fuel tanks at each station, and EPA regula...
“The Federal Government’s commitment to research can help to improve the fire service if the front line is appropriately engaged,” says the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs President and Edmonton Fire Chief, Ken Block. Representing the country’s 3500 fire departments, the Association had asked the Federal Government to support mental health resilience training in first responders; research to better inform building code changes, and preservation of the volunteer firef...
Abbot Fire Group were delighted to be presented with their certificate from the LPCB, the Loss Prevention Certification Board, for LPS 1531 Appendix 1; the installation and application of passive fire protection products. The certificate was presented by Ruth Tucker, LPCB Installer Scheme Manager, to Nigel Walton, Manager Director of Abbot Fire Group. John Bercow, MP for Buckingham, was also present at the event and said: “Huge congratulations to the team at Abbot Fire Group for achieving...
Mr. Franklin L. Feder has been elected to the PACCAR Inc Board of Directors, effective April 30, 2018, according to Mark Pigott, PACCAR executive chairman. Mr. Feder will succeed Luiz Kaufmann, who will retire from the Board on April 29, 2018. “PACCAR is very pleased that Frank Feder will be joining the Board. His years of management experience in international business, especially in South America, finance and manufacturing will benefit PACCAR in its global growth,” said Mark Pigot...
Chris McLoone from Fire Apparatus Magazine visited Bronto Skylift factory and local fire station in Tampere. “The second facility we visited is the Pori factory where the booms are built. The engineering is exacting, as you’d imagine. According to Goyer, the stability we experienced up in a 90-meter Bronto in 30-mileper-hour (mph) winds is derived from the construction of the boom, which allows for the rigid feeling at 92 feet horizontal and at full height with only a 23-foot total j...
Jactone PAFSS Direct Low Pressure (DLP) fixed fire suppression systems, which utilize 3M™ Novec™ 1230 Fire Protection Fluid, are the only systems in the world approved to LPCB standard LPS 1666 that have an allowance for vents (openings) and airflow (fans). This provision in PAFSS also future proofs the system performance against maintenance/modifications that introduce further vent areas to the enclosure. It is essential to discuss this issue when enquiring about the certification...
E-ONE, a global provider of emergency response vehicles, announces Lone Star Emergency Group as its new dealer for Texas. With service centers in Dallas and Houston, Lone Star Emergency Group is ready to meet the fire apparatus sales and service needs in Texas. Lone Star Emergency Group currently offers the following: 30,000-square-foot service center in Houston 20,0000-square-foot service center in Dallas 10 mobile service units offering 24-hour service 14 technicians who are certified b...
Streamlight® Inc., a provider of high-performance lighting and weapon light/laser sighting devices, introduced the ProTac® HPL USB (High Performance, High Lumen), delivering an incredibly bright 1,000 lumens and an intense, down-range beam. The new model, which uses a Streamlight lithium ion rechargeable battery, includes a built-in USB charge port, permitting it to be charged from a laptop or most USB wall chargers. ProTac HPL USB The next generation of ProTac® design, the ProTac...
Demand is growing for certified low-emission building products as consumers, regulators, Green Building Rating Systems (GBRS) and the EU Commission in LEVEL(s) place a strong emphasis on the health and comfort in buildings, said Vincent Briard, Sustainability & Product Regulatory Affairs Director told an international conference on Tuesday, January 30. Speaking at a conference about Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) organized by certification organization Eurofins in Germany, Vincent said c...
Five new on-call firefighters have joined fire stations across Cambridgeshire after completing training. The latest group of on-call recruits passed out on Sunday (January 28) and are now serving their communities as firefighters around their work and home life. Showing outstanding commitment Group Commander Gary Mitchley, head of on-call at Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS), said: “We’re delighted to welcome five new recruits to CFRS. Being an on-call firefighter is a...
Erickson Incorporated, an aerospace manufacturer and aerial services company has strengthened its leadership team under CEO and Director Douglas Kitani with the hiring of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Stephen Wideman and Corporate Controller Micheal Hausinger. Doug Kitani said, “We are excited to have this new finance leadership at Erickson, which will continue to drive fiscal responsibility and discipline in support of our enterprise growth initiatives.” Overseeing Fi...
ASL will host two key presentations on Thursday 8th February 2018 at the forthcoming Integrated Systems Europe 2018 exhibition held at Amsterdam’s RAI Exhibition Centre, the Netherlands from 6th-9th February 2018. With colleagues from ASL’s overseas distribution partners, the presentations will include details of two recent large-scale projects showcasing ASL’s new VIPEDIA-PRO EN54 PAVA equipment with Dante™ and the ASL INTEGRA all-in-one public address/voice alarm syste...
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