Fire Industry News for November 2014

The 30,000-square-foot maintenance facility includes in-house service department Golden State Fire Apparatus, celebrating its 25th Anniversary in October 2014, recently announced a move to new offices and service center facilities located at 7400 Reese Road in Sacramento beginning on January 8, 2015. The three-acre campus features a renovated 30,000-square-foot maintenance facility with space for up to 18 apparatus bays, making Golden State Fire Apparatus a single source prov...

The ‘Supporter’ brings a whole new level of safety and versatility to vehicle rescue and extrication Following extensive trials, Warwickshire County Council's Fire and Rescue Service has become the first UK brigade to opt for the new Paratech ‘Supporter’ Vehicle Stabilisation System from Vimpex. Twenty-five sets were purchased allowing a pair of ‘Supporter’ struts to be carried on all front line vehicles. The ‘Supporter’ brings...

SigniFire system works by automatically analysing video images at the point of detection in each video fire detector The SigniFire Video Image Detection (VID) system from Fike Safety Technology (FST) has been installed in Prague’s waste incinerator to replace ageing flame detectors as part of a major upgrade to their fire detection system. Located at Malesice in the Czech Republic’s capital city, the incinerator and cogeneration plant is operated by Prazské...

The Pierce Arrow XT pumpers feature 25.4-cm raised roof cab, seating for five firefighters and PSV seats Pierce Manufacturing, an Oshkosh Corporation company, delivered three Pierce® Arrow XT™ pumpers to fire departments in Vancouver, British Columbia – one each to the City of North Vancouver Fire Department, the District of North Vancouver Fire Department, and the District of West Vancouver Fire Department. Purchased through a co-op recently formed among the d...

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority ensure that they have conducted their Fire Risk Assessment North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service are again reminding all business owners to make sure that they are providing the correct level of fire safety provision and are not breaching Fire Safety Legislation, following the prosecution of a business man operating in York.  Mr Lawrence Stephenson has pleaded guilty to 2 breaches of articles contained in the Fire Safety Order...

RescueSim is an incident command simulator for emergency responders and fire and rescue services The UK awarding body LASER has certified the RescueSim Virtual Incident Command training delivered by Peter Stanley Training. The RescueSim training is valued as two units at Level 2 in the UK Qualifications and Credit framework (QCF). Peter Stanley Training is an accredited training provider to over 36 Fire and Rescue Services in the UK and UK airport rescue firefighting services...

RadioLINK lets users interconnect Aico alarms and accessories together using RF signals rather than cabling Sanctuary Housing, one of the largest social housing providers in the country, has installed Aico’s 160RC series mains-powered RadioLINK alarm systems into all of the 96 flats in its latest £10.4 million development in Newlands Place, Cumbernauld. Sanctuary Housing manages homes across England and Scotland, providing general rented, sheltered and home owner...