Fire Industry News for January 2023

Fire safety is important to implement everywhere, including the home. Yet, many people may not realize how many fire protection items are available and practical to keep in the house in the unfortunate event that a fire does break out. Mentioned below are some essential fire safety items to consider keeping at home. Fire Alarm System Every home should have a smoke detector in place as the most basic level of fire protection. Though it is not a legal requirement to have a smoke alarm in place...

As multi-sensors become increasingly popular, Detectortesters are delighted to be partnering with Hochiki to present a new webinar, looking at the functional testing of these devices using Testifire. With multi-sensors becoming more and more sophisticated but easier to manufacture, they are becoming the number one choice for system designers and installers wishing to reduce false alarms and provide flexible fire detection. Testing a multi-sensor accurately and efficiently Scheduled for 19th J...

G4S Secure Solutions UK will create almost 100 jobs for those living near Suffolk, close to the Sizewell C nuclear plant. EDF has awarded a £4.3 million interim security contract to G4S. So far, over 50 residents have applied for positions or are in the process of onboarding, including the Contract Manager, James Self. James, who was born and raised in Suffolk, joined G4S in 2018 as a Security Training Manager at Hinkley Point C, in Somerset, before transferring to work at the Sizewell C...

In February 2020, the Department of Defense ASD SO/LIC’s ’Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD) selected SMARTSHOOTER, a designer, developer, and manufacturer of innovative fire control systems, to develop the solution for its Individual Weapon Overmatch Optic (IWOO) project. IWOO Technology Readiness Review Recently, SMARTSHOOTER reached its final milestone by successfully passing the IWOO Technology Readiness Review (TRR). Two prototype systems were taken throug...

Thirteen fire departments received much-needed new personal protective equipment in 2022 due to MSA and DuPont’s Globe Gear Giveaway, in partnership with the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC). To keep first responders safe and protected, the giveaway awarded four sets of state-of-the-art turnout gear and four new helmets to selected departments. In addition, the first 500 applicants received a complimentary membership to the NVFC, courtesy of MSA. annual giveaway Too often, volunte...

A new multi-million-pound leisure center owned by Great Yarmouth Borough Council is fire-safe, due to a partnership approach with Secur-It specifying Comelit-PAC’s integrated solution. The new £26 million Marina Centre leisure complex on Great Yarmouth’s seafront, was designed to replace the old 1980s built center. With work starting in January 2021, it reopened in August 2022. Operated by Freedom Leisure, the new facility boasts a six-lane swimming pool, learner pool, and aqu...

Cierra Orlyk, communications coordinator, joined the NVFC in September. She assists with the NVFC’s messaging and public outreach, including managing the NVFC’s social media accounts, writing newsletter and eblast content, and facilitating live panel discussions. Cierra developed a deep respect and admiration for emergency responders growing up with a firefighter as her dad, and gained valuable association management experience before coming to the NVFC. She received her bachelor&rs...

Cancer is one of the biggest health threats facing firefighters, but there are actions that people can take to protect themselves and their crew. January is Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month, a time to learn about what service members and the fire department can do to lessen exposure risks and prevent job-related cancer. Here are some resources and tools to help: Lavender Ribbon Reports – The Lavender Ribbon Report details 11 specific actions firefighters can take to reduce exposure...

Vimpex Ltd. announces the appointment of new Head of Sales for the Evacuation Division - Heath Cook. Heath Cook will be applying his expertise by supporting the Vimpex Sales Team’s delivery of the very best world-class evacuation product solutions to its United Kingdom (UK) and export customers across a broad array of markets. Extensive industry experience Vimpex Ltd.’s Managing Director, James Jones says “Heath brings years of relevant experience to Vimpex. His deep knowled...

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authority are proposing to increase their share of the council tax for 2023/2024 by 6.6 percent, which for a Band D property equates to an additional £4.95 a year and £79.92 in total. With spiraling inflation affecting costs of supplies, energy, fuel, pay, and everything else, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service was anticipating starting the 2023/24 financial year with a £1.1m deficit. Service improvement  Chief Fire Officer Chris...

North West installers - Fire Queen Limited combined a state-of-the-art Advanced Go fire panel with cutting edge wireless devices from Hyfire to protect artwork at The Art of Banksy exhibition, housed in a temporary venue at Media City, Manchester, United Kingdom (UK). The Fire Queen team were given just one week’s notice to survey, specify and install a BS5839-1-2017-compliant fire system to protect the exhibition, which housed a range of the mystery street artist’s most iconic work...

The application period is now open for the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG), which provides funding to fire and EMS departments for necessities, such as gear, equipment, vehicles, and training. Find the Notice of Funding Opportunity, the application workshop schedule, and other tools to help with the grant application on the AFG web site. Interested individuals can also take the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) course Grant Writing for the Fire and Emergency Services to get tips for...

Fire protection solutions company - Advanced has appointed Business Development Manager - Sargunan Sellamuthu as part of its ambitious growth plans in the Middle East and Africa. Sargunan comes to Advanced with nearly a decade of fire industry experience, most recently working as a Sales Manager, successfully handling UAE sales for a European safety systems manufacturer. Prior to that he worked in several engineering roles. Several engineering roles In his new position, Sargunan will draw on...

From January 17 – January 19, 2023, Coopers Fire will be exhibiting as part of the UK Fire Pavilion on Stand F27 in Hall 4 in the Fire and Rescue area, at Intersec 2023 - the region’s largest gathering of fire professionals showcasing the latest firefighting technologies, the best international standards and practices, and supported by the Dubai Civil Defence. Intersec, the internationally renowned and most important global emergency services, security and safety event will mark its...

It’s been three years since the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) published the most recent edition of the wide-ranging standard that spans “the application, installation, location, performance, inspection, testing and maintenance of fire alarm systems, fire warning equipment, and emergency warning equipment and their components.” 2022 update A 2022 edition was officially published in September 2021, after thousands of hours of collaboration, review, and debate amon...

Chubb Fire & Security (‘Chubb’) is pleased to announce that, since the appointment of Andrew White as Chief Executive Officer earlier this year, it has significantly strengthened its Executive Leadership Team (‘ELT’) with a number of senior hires and internal promotions. The ELT has been established to provide greater levels of oversight to Chubb’s global sales and operational activity and to maintain its focus on its three key pillars of people, process and po...

A new year brings new challenges, and for the Star Lake Fire District (SLFD), they’ll meet those challenges head-on with its recently delivered Toyne Pumper. Rigged out with top-tier firefighting and emergency response hardware, SLFD’s Toyne Tailored Apparatus is ready to take the call. Established in 1929, this fire district has served the Star Lake community for 94 years. Located in New York’s Adirondack Mountains in St. Lawrence County, SLFD responds to a wide variety of fi...

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) marks its 25th anniversary. Established by the Clean Act Amendments of 1990, the CSB began operations on January 4, 1998. Safe operations CSB Chairperson - Steve Owens said, “The CSB is a small agency, but it has a very big and very important mission: to help ensure that chemical facilities are operated safely and that communities, workers, and the environment are protected from chemical disasters." Steve Owens adds, "Th...

Comelit-PAC has evolved its LogiFire fire safety range to enable monitoring and management via cloud technology through its powerful MyComelit app. The innovative fire safety system, enhanced with its user-friendly touchscreen display and stylish design, is now available to operate with the fully responsive app from Comelit-PAC. This enables users to log, manage and administrate the commissioning, servicing, maintenance, testing, performance and day-to-day use of the connected fire alarm system...

SWIFT™ Smart Wireless Integrated Fire Technology is a Class A, commercial wireless fire detection system using a robust mesh network that integrates with existing Gamewell-FCI fire alarm systems. SWIFT sensors detect fire, just like their wired counterparts, while providing installation flexibility in a wireless format. Applications and installations The wireless fire detection system is ideal for challenging applications where running traditional wire is inefficient or difficu...

When high value assets, equipment or irreplaceable items are at stake, early warning of a smoke or fire problem, is essential. The air sampling or air monitoring equipment actively pulls in room air to a special chamber where it can detect the presence of particles that are created in the very early stages of combustion, even before smoke is visible. With the world’s widest sensitivity range, VESDA air monitoring produces multi-level warnings at the very early stage of an impending fire....

The KGO deploys units from 30 ambulance stations, 156 fire stations, and 116 police stations, and Siemens and Frequentis were chosen to supply the associated technology. 1,200 emergency calls for the police and 550 for the fire and ambulance services: just an average working day for the three emergency services in the Oldenburg region. “The police alone received 680 emergency calls between midnight and 6 am on New Year’s Day 2013,” recalls Chief Superintendent Heiko...

The FDC Vietnam project is the first large-scale Frequentis project in Vietnam, generating an order value of EUR 8 million. It is the worldwide biggest fire brigade project of the Vienna-based high-tech company so far and another story of success regarding the cooperation with the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB). construction phase After nearly 10 years of preparation, the contract covering the first construction and modernization phase of dispatch centers for the fire brigade and emerge...

The Fire and Rescue Services of Essex and Bedfordshire awarded Frequentis the contract for providing its latest version of its 3020 Integrated Communications Control System (ICCS) for their new joint control rooms project. Essex has been using Frequentis solutions for some seven years. A new collaborative control center in a brand new facility will be established. This contract when completed will enable the combined team of Essex and Bedfordshire FRS to have one of the pioneer and highly reli...

With an order value of EUR 8 million, the FDC (Fire Brigades Dispatch Center) project in Vietnam is the biggest fire brigade project the Vienna-based high-tech company has worked on so far. Within the framework of an economic mission in Vietnam, Alois Stöger, Austrian Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation, and Technology, took part in the official inauguration of the fire brigade central in Hanoi. The event leads over into the project’s second phase, where further dispatch cent...

The KGO deploys units from 30 ambulance stations, 156 fire stations, and 116 police stations, and Siemens and Frequentis were chosen to supply the associated technology. 1,200 emergency calls for the police and 550 for the fire and ambulance services: just an average working day for the three emergency services in the Oldenburg region. “The police alone received 680 emergency calls between midnight and 6am on New Year’s Day 2013”, recalls Chief Superintendent Heiko von Deetzen...

The Norwegian police reform has been in the process of integrating 27 police districts into 12 for the past two years and co-locating fire control centers, as part of restructuring to create a more efficient emergency response. The control center in Ski, in Øst (East) police district in Norway, is the fourth to be successfully co-located and was officially opened by the Minister of Justice at the end of March 2018. Frequentis had previously equipped all 27 legacy police districts in Norw...

Norway’s new digital TETRA network (Nødnett) is designed to improve communication between the major emergency services. But it has an additional benefit for fire and rescue services: greater cooperation and shared resource use between independent municipal fire departments. “Before Nødnett there were several different radio communication systems”, recalls Øyvind Arntzen, Head of Vestviken Fire Control Center in Drammen. Now service borders are less of a b...

HI-FOG® is the trade name of the high-pressure water mist fire protection system developed, manufactured, and delivered by Marioff. The Marioff HI-FOG® Water Mist Fire Protection System can be used in place of deluge, gas, foam, dry chemical, traditional sprinkler, and any other type of fixed fire protection system. It is efficient against most types of fires. HI-FOG® water mist HI-FOG® controls, suppresses, and extinguishes fires by discharging a fine water mist at high veloc...

Based on a long history of relevant expertise and many years of experience with safety-critical communication systems, Frequentis provides solutions to support corporate safety and security, threat management and protection, and civil protection and emergency management. Evonik Industries, one of the world’s pioneer specialty chemicals companies, has equipped its sites in Darmstadt/Weiterstadt and Worms (Germany) with a networked and integrated command and control center as well as with a...