Fire Rescue - Case Studies
Heat waves caused by climate change are currently also increasing strongly across Europe and the associated risk of forest fires is rising immensely. Fires in natural areas are increasingly getting out of control due to drought or wind, and the risk of danger to people, animals, nature, and infrastructure is growing. But how can fires be detected and localized at an early stage to minimize or even avoid serious damage? Artificial intelligence With image processing and artificial intelligence,...
At the end of September 2022, Rosenbauer handed over six fire trucks to the Vienna Professional Fire Department. A total of 76 vehicles have been put into service by the Vienna Professional Fire Department since 2009, replacing a large part of its fleet of group vehicles. While in the past the emphasis was on rescue extinguishing vehicles, however, with the current generation, the Fire Department relies on two types of vehicles: rescue fire assistance vehicles (HLF) and tank firefighting ve...
Pierce Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company, announced it has secured a contract with the Gilbert Fire and Rescue Department in Arizona to place a Pierce® Volterra™ zero-emissions pumper with an Oshkosh patented parallel-electric drivetrain into service with the department’s busiest station, Station No. 2. Gilbert Fire and Rescue’s Volterra electric pumper will be the third placement for Pierce, with others including the City of Madison, Wisconsin Fire Depart...
Cummins Inc. will soon begin building its new gigawatt electrolyzer manufacturing plant in Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, reaffirming the company’s commitment to expanding the green hydrogen economy in Europe and globally. In 2021, Cummins announced it had selected Spain as the site of a new proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer plant. Recently, the company purchased more than 530,000 sq. ft. (50,000 sq. m.) of land in the industrial area of Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha,...
Queensland has its first Crisis Stabilization Unit at Robina Hospital. Gold Coast Health is one of the first health services in Australia to introduce this new model of care. The main reason for the new unit was to divert patients in acute mental health crises away from emergency departments and into a comfortable, therapeutic, and home-like environment to ease their crisis. Designed by clinicians and people with lived experience, the unit provides a less clinical, more home-like and therapeuti...
L3Harris Technologies has completed the delivery of its 6,000th WESCAM MX-Series imaging system, which provides customers in more than 80 countries, with advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and targeting capabilities. The milestone delivery was a WESCAM MX-25D electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) and laser designator sensor system delivered to U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in support of the Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) AC-130J gunship moderniza...
Gold Coast Health is one of the first health services in Australia to introduce this new model of care. The main reason for the new unit was to divert patients in acute mental health crises away from emergency departments and into a comfortable, therapeutic, and home-like environment to ease their crisis. Designed by clinicians and people with lived experience, the unit provides a less clinical, more home-like, and therapeutic environment for patients and their families. Mental health support...
Atura Power has selected Cummins Inc. to design and manufacture the electrolyzer system for its Niagara Hydrogen Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. This will be Ontario’s first 20-megawatt (MW) green hydrogen facility. Cummins’ proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis system will be manufactured at its Mississauga, Ontario facility and become the center-piece of Atura Power’s Niagara Hydrogen Centre. PEM electrolyzer system Powered by renewable hydroelectricity, th...
Universities are one of the most popular sites for Scorpion installs. Detectortesters recently caught up with the team responsible for fire system maintenance at the University of Southampton to see how they use Scorpion to help protect some of their facilities. The most recent installations of Scorpion at the University have been installed in lift shafts, these all have smoke detectors installed at the top of the shaft – which in order to be tested require a lift engineer on site and the...
Three Rosenbauer ATs are the new key players in the Wildeshausen fire service fleet. They make an unbeatable team, the three new fire brigade vehicles of the Wildeshausen fire service (Wildeshausen Volunteer Fire Department) in Lower Saxony: the TLF 4000 Troop, the HLF 20, and the LF 20. Together, they bring no less than 10,000 liters of extinguishing agent to the scene, and they have largely identical or complementary firefighting equipment on board, which is particularly suitable for fighting...
Fire officers in Cornwall have responded to the increasing frequency of wildfires and flash floods by commissioning an extreme off-road Mercedes-Benz Unimog that can be kitted out to tackle both types of incidents and much more besides. The ultra-high mobility Unimog UHE will transport mission-specific ‘pods’, each packed with specialist equipment. 4x4 chassis These are the work of prime contractor Emergency One (UK), of Cumnock, Ayrshire, a manufacturer of appliances...
Polk County (Fla.) Fire Rescue’s hazmat team recently sent some photos of their HazSim units in action or, more accurately, preparing for action. gas meter Polk County’s hazmat team covers a lot of ground. They have a response area of more than 2,000 square miles with more than 700,000 population; all protected by 60 hazmat team members. The team faces everything from hazmat situations brought on by natural disasters like hurricanes to manmade threats like heavy phosphate mining....
Frontline Communications, a division of Pierce Manufacturing Inc., and a subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation, announced that the Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, Florida, USA, has taken delivery of three disaster response vehicles, incorporating advanced communication and technology features. Sold through Pierce Manufacturing and Frontline Communications’ dealer, Ten-8 Fire Equipment, the highly customized vehicles include two C-25 Mobile Command Vehicles and one C-33 Mobile Command...
Frontline Communications, a division of Pierce Manufacturing Inc., and a subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation, announced Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, Florida, has taken delivery of three disaster response vehicles incorporating advanced communication and technology features. Sold through Pierce and Frontline Communications’ dealer, Ten-8 Fire Equipment, the highly customized vehicles include two C-25 Mobile Command Vehicles and one C-33 Mobile Command Center. Author's quot...
An outpatient diagnostic and rehabilitation unit at an Isle of Wight hospital has been deemed unfit for purpose due to fire safety failings. The Laidlaw unit at St Mary’s Hospital, Newport was found to have disconnected alarms in the roof space of the ward and ‘inadequately sized and positioned’ fire exits, as detailed in a report produced for the Isle of Wight NHS Trust. Fire safety failings This will mean that safe evacuation will be compromised, as there will be minimal w...
MSA Safety Incorporated (MSA) has announced that it has been awarded a US$ 9 million contract from the London Fire Brigade to supply firefighters with MSA’s new M1 Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) and telemetry technology. The contract was formally awarded in early July, 2022, with the equipment deliveries expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2022. Multi-phase SCBA training and deployment process The announcement also represents the beginning of a multi-phase SCBA train...
Pierce Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company, announced the Big Bear, California Fire Department (Big Bear Fire Department ) has placed an order for three custom Pierce fire apparatus, including two Pierce Arrow XT 4x4 pumpers and an Ascendant 100’ Heavy-Duty Aerial Tower with mid-mount configuration. The new fire apparatus purchase is part of a fleet upgrade and replacement initiative for the Big Bear Fire Department and was coordinated through authorized Pierce dealer, Sout...
Ceasefire is very pleased to share a recent case study published by LPCB describing how Ceasefire's world-class product quality was endorsed by the agency's stamp of approval on quality, safety, and performance. “In the quest to get our products and processes certified to the most coveted standards in the world, our team connected with LPCB. The ability to test the safety and performance of our products to a number of globally recognized standards meant that LPCB was our first choice for...
Working alongside the ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites), Safelincs played a pivotal role in providing and delivering 440 water mist extinguishers to Ukraine. The extinguishers will be used to protect up to 200 historic wooden churches in remote communities across the country. The company was approached by the ICOMOS, as part of an international effort to preserve Ukraine’s historic monuments in the war-ravaged country. Support package As part of the support pa...
The Brazilian state of Ceará received the first FireBull – the world's first tracked fire engine from Magirus. A delegation with high-ranking representatives of the Governor of the Brazilian state of Ceará, the fire brigades and partners were guests at the Magirus Experience Center in Ulm for the technical acceptance and handover of the world’s first tracked fire engine, as well as a MultiStar combination vehicle and several portable fire pumps. State-of-the-art Magir...
The municipality of Nörvenich in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany procures a Rosenbauer RT (Revolutionary Technology) for its volunteer fire department. Equally impressed with the future-oriented vehicle concept, they are now joining the ranks of global customers, such as the Berlin Fire Department, the Los Angeles Fire Department, and the Dubai Civil Defence. The purchase contract was signed on June 20, 2022, at the world’s renowned trade fair, Interschutz 2022 and the vehicle wi...
Celebrating its centenary, the IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital is in Negrar, Verona, and thanks to the expert team and technology in place, it is considered one of Italy’s foremost medical facilities, and in fact, at the European level, it is recognized as the foremost hospitals in the healthcare sector. The hospital is made up of eight buildings with more than 30 medical departments, operating theatres, offices, canteens, and conference rooms. In recent years, t...
FIRST LOOK, the rescue products division of Agility Technologies (ATC), and FIRST LOOK European partner Vogt-CTE, are extremely pleased to announce the donation of their signature FL360 USAR1 Search and Rescue Camera systems to the @fire International Disaster Response Germany organization to enhance search and rescue capabilities. mobile-based, wireless 360° spherical imaging camera The FL360 Search Camera is the first mobile integrated, wireless 360° spherical imaging camera ever int...
The construction industry is undertaking a dramatic U-turn, as sustainable specification comes to the fore, with a growing ambition to build with timber. As such, from 2000 to 2020, global timber consumption has increased by 1.1% per year. While timber is more sustainable than steel or concrete, one of the key barriers is the concern that wood burns. This view is beginning to change as new innovations in improved fire protection for timber mean industry professionals are becoming more willing t...
London Fire Brigade (LFB) sent around 60 firefighters, in eight appliances to a tower block on Queensdale Crescent, less than a mile away from Grenfell Tower, where a flat on the 12th floor was ablaze on 21 June, 2022. The LFB arrived at the scene at Stebbing House at around 9:20 am, with the fire under control by 10:55 am. The fire is believed to have been caused by a charging electric scooter. Fire risk assessment According to a report by Construction News, a recent fire risk assessment by...
Through nine decades of high-quality products and superior customer service, Davis Jewelers has become a leader in the jewelry business, but it’s a business that comes with certain security risks. Davis Jewelers chose Motorola Solutions’ Video Security & Analytics solution with Avigilon technologies to help mitigate those risks, providing seamless, centralized security monitoring for the whole team. Security & Analytics solution By choosing a Motorola Solutions’ Vide...
Pierce Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company, has announced the sale of the 300th Ascendant 100’ Heavy-Duty Aerial Tower with mid-mount configuration, purchased by the Austin Fire Department, in Texas, USA, through authorized dealer – Siddons Martin Emergency Group. Since its introduction in 2018 and following the 200th sale, just one year ago, this aerial configuration has proven to offer an unmatched combination of maneuverability, operability, and serviceability in t...
C-TEC’s revolutionary new evacuation alert system, EVAC-ALERT, has been specified for a new purpose-built residential building in London. housing organization Located in the Elephant and Castle area of the London Borough of Southwark, Joyce Newman House is an 8-story block of 40 spacious living spaces commissioned by Leathermarket JMB, Southwark’s largest resident-managed housing organization. The affordable-housing development also features landscaped gardens, an interacti...
Nittan Europe, a globally renowned manufacturer of conventional and addressable fire detection products, has had its Evolution analog addressable fire detection system installed throughout Ashburton Triangle, situated on the Emirates Stadium site in North London, United Kingdom. The system was supply and commissioned by Nittan’s elite partner, Coomber Fire and Security Systems. A mixed-use development, Ashburton Triangle comprises 249 flats over 12 floors, along with the ever-popular Arse...
For many process engineers and manufacturers, two vital areas in the production cycle require close attention; process safety and product quality. In both cases, accurately measuring and controlling oxygen levels in tanks and process vessels is paramount. This success story explores how an analyzer-based oxygen measurement inerting system enabled a manufacturing plant to advance process safety, improve product quality, and increase production yield. Introduction A large international chemical...
