Fire Rescue EMS Industry News

| 01/10/2013

Code 3 Introduces the Defender TC2 Code 3®, Inc. Enhances the Defender TC2 MultiColor Lightbar! The new Defender TC2 maintains the same great intense brightness and off-angle signal that the Defender has come to be known for PLUS offers many enhancements to its dual color capability. Select from several different dual color TC6 lightheads that can flash two full distinctly different color signals: red/blue, red/white, blue/white, red/amber, blue/amber, and amber/white. Flash a dual color lighthead in a single color only, to be compliant with any state or local color requirements. Flash a dual color red/blue lighthead and then switch to a tak... Read More...

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| 10/05/2012

Ferrara Leaves FES “G&G Metal Fabrication, Inc./Fire Equipment Services Division was notified Sept. 6 that Ferrara Fire Apparatus was choosing to immediately terminate our 15 year dealer agreement and pass the dealership to Slagle’s Fire Equipment and Supply Co., Inc. of South Boston, Vir.,” announced Kent Cummings, FES Sales Manager. “We are working with our customers that had a desire to purchase a new truck from Ferrara to do so within the next 30 days. All outstanding orders shall be processed as before with Fire Equipment Services being fully integrated into the delivery process. “We are continuing our over 25 year commitment to the pro... Read More...

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| 08/24/2012

The Charlotte Firefighters Association will be hosting the 2nd annual 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb on October 13, 2012 to honor the 343 fallen firefighters, 23 NYPD, 37 PAPD and 15 medics lost on September 11, 2001. Hundreds of firefighters, police officers, medics and people in our community will climb 110 flights of stairs in the Duke Energy building to remember those that made this climb and lost their lives in the World Trade Center. The day will be filled with family activities while the climb is taking place with thousands in attendance in addition to the climbers. There will be local celebrities in attendance, political representatives al... Read More...

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| 08/13/2012

APPLETON, Wis. (August 9, 2012) – Pierce Manufacturing, an Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK) company, today announced that Atlantic Emergency Solutions is the new Pierce apparatus dealer for North Carolina, expanding its current territory that includes Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia, and portions of West Virginia. The change is prompted by the retirement of Triad Fire Inc. founder, Dick Hastings. Gerald Sapp (partner at Triad Fire) will join Atlantic Emergency Solutions as vice president of sales, North Carolina, and remain involved with all North Carolina customers. Read More...

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| 08/08/2012

Nesquehoning, PA – KME is pleased to announce the addition of Safe Industries (www.safeindustries.com) to the KME sales representative network. Safe Industries’ home office is located in Piedmont, SC, just south of the Greenville/Spartanburg area, and will handle sales and service for KME products in both North and South Carolina. Read More...

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| 08/01/2012

Three individuals were inducted into the South Carolina State Firefighters’ Hall of Fame at the 2012 S.C. Fire Rescue Conference at Myrtle Beach in June. Their names are added to a list of men that were first selected in 1976. Selected were Chief Paul Blackwelder, Chief Alvin Payne and Chief Richard Waring. The induction of an individual into the South Carolina State Firefighters’ Hall of Fame can be for a variety of reasons. Paramount in the selection criteria for this award are the nominee’s contributions to the fire service at levels beyond their local fire department. The individual should have clearly left their mark on the South Caroli... Read More...

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| 08/01/2012

The 2011-2012 cohort of UNC Charlotte’s EMS Management Institute concluded this spring with the graduation of 16 EMS supervisors and administrators from across North and South Carolina. The graduates join an alumni network of nearly 1,000 EMS leaders who have completed the certificate program since its founding in 1980. The program began in October with three days of training in Leadership and Team-Building which included activities at UNC Charlotte’s Venture High Ropes Challenge Course. Classes continued with over 90 instructional hours over a five month period with modules including Supervision and Personnel Management, Operations Manageme... Read More...

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| 05/09/2012

RALEIGH - This year marks the 125th anniversary of the North Carolina State Firemen's Association. Several special events and projects are being planned to celebrate this historic event during the Conference in August. You are invited to participate! Please send us any historic photos that you may have of your department. We're looking for fires, firehouses, personnel, apparatus - pretty much anything that illustrates how your department USED to look. If you have scanned digital photos, email them to graphics@southatlanticfirerescueexpo.com . Read More...

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| 05/02/2012

Chief Edward P. Brinson has been selected to serve as the Assistant Director of the North Carolina State Firemen’s Association. Chief Brinson is known to many of you and currently serves as the Chief of the Fairview Rural Fire Department located at 4501 Ten-Ten Road in Apex, NC. Read More...

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| 05/02/2012

Thirty fire service leaders and aspiring leaders from across North Carolina and South Carolina graduated from UNC Charlotte’s Fire and Rescue Management Institute in February, joining over 200 alumni who have completed the co-hort certificate program since 2006-2007. Students completed over 70 hours of leadership and management curriculum covering modules such as Leadership and Team-Building, Strategic Planning and Operations Management, Communication Skills & Public Relations, and Personnel Management. The 12-day curriculum, which is spread out over four months, is designed to prepare today and tomorrow’ fire and rescue administrators for th... Read More...

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Ken Newell | 04/23/2012

While certainly exciting, the idea of starting a new construction project, and particularly one as complicated as a public safety facility, can often cause as much anxiety and tension as losing your path in a training maze. Large projects obviously demand a great deal of coordination, but the endless decision-making, detail planning and critical analysis that even a small project requires can easily overwhelm an unprepared department. ‘What do I do first?’ ‘How do we get from here to there?’ ‘How much will we have to spend?’ ‘How long will it take?’ ‘Who can I trust for good advice?’ Like the disorienting smoke of a maze, these questions and... Read More...

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Joe Woodall | 04/23/2012

Well it looks as though the days of poking fun at our donut eating law enforcement colleagues are over. Just in case you haven’t heard, a study commissioned by the National Volunteer Fire Council directed at examining obesity in the American fire service was recently released. The authors, Haddock, Poston and Jahnke (2011) brought forth some staggering news: “Rates of overweight and obese individuals in the fire service are higher than those found in the general public, ranging from 73 percent to 88 percent of firefighters.” As a retired firefighter (2003) and currently working as a community college fire protection program chair, my experie... Read More...

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| 04/23/2012

The Caldwell County Fire Rescue Association will be hosting the 2012 Fall Fire and Life Safety Festival to be held at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute on Oct. 6, 2012. The festival will encourage the citizens of Caldwell and surrounding counties to practice prevention activities in their daily lives to reduce the risk of death and injury related to preventable causes. Read More...

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Jonah Smith | 04/23/2012

During my tenure as a firefighter and officer, I have attended some great symposiums, conventions, and networked with firefighters from all around the world. This past August I was able to attend the International Association of Firefighters’ (IAFF) Redmond Symposium, a symposium held every other year to bring together the experts on health, safety and wellness. Read More...

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Collin Hawkes | 04/23/2012

I will never forget it, the rush of excitement and confusion when I heard the tones go off. About 15 minutes earlier I had received my first set of turnout gear. “Jump on the truck!” the lieutenant barked as I quickly climbed up. As we drove to the call I was amazed at my first time running emergency traffic in a fire truck. As we pulled on scene my lieutenant said, “If it’s burning that will be the hydrant we will be catching.” At that time I really had no idea what he was saying, but I knew I already loved firefighting. Read More...

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