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Posted: Aug 11, 2017

Happy Volunteer Fire Department Receives New Fire Truck

It has been over 10 years since the Happy Volunteer Fire Department has received a fire truck, but they say it was well worth the wait. 18 months ago, Happy filled out a grant form with the Texas A&M Forest Service for a new truck.

18 months ago, Happy filled out a grant form with the Texas A&M Forest Service for a new truck.


They say they designed the truck with the needs of the fire department in mind, and now Happy's new $200,000 truck will make the firemen's operations easier and more efficient.


The old trucks held 750 gallons of water, but their new truck holds 2,000 so it can fight larger fires.


It also has an air filtration system, which filters out smoke and makes clean air for the firemen.


The biggest asset is that it is multi-purpose, which is especially helpful for their department .


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Posted: Aug 11, 2017

Updated Ready Rack SCBA Mobile Bottle Carts

Groves has made a design change to its SCBA Mobile Bottle Carts. Effective immediately the products MBR-16, MBR-24, MBR-28, MBR-36 and MBR-42 will be replaced by part numbers VBR-16, VBR-24, VBR-28, VBR-36 and the VBR-42.

The change covers how bottles are stored on shelves. Groves has done away with the divider system and moved toward a more consistent V-shaped shelf design. By doing this the company has eased and shortened the time needed for assembly while making the process of loading the bottles into the cart more efficient. A result of using the V-shaped shelves was a change in overall sizing. The depth and the height of the units remains the same, however the width of the VBR-36 and the VBR-42 has gone from 48” to 54”.

  • VBR-16: Holds 16 bottles; 4 Shelves | 36” x 24” x 40” | 64 lbs.
  • VBR-24: Holds 24 bottles; 6 Shelves | 36” x 24” x 61” | 90 lbs.
  • VBR-28: Holds 28 bottles; 7 Shelves | 36” x 24” x 71.5” | 106 lbs.
  • VBR-36: Holds 36 bottles; 6 Shelves | 54” x 24” x 61” | 121 lbs.
  • VBR-42: Holds 42 bottles; 7 Shelves | 54” x 24” x 71.5” | 140 lbs.

For more information, visit www.readyrack.com.

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Posted: Aug 11, 2017

Orange County Data: Reduced Response Times Up to a Minute

Orange County’s (CA) Fire and Rescue team is getting high-tech assistance. A new station alert system has only been online for a few months but already first responders say it is getting results.

Think Google maps with station-specific rescue alerts delivered on everything from first responders’ smart phones to fire-rescue mobile data computers and you have Orange County Fire’s new station alerting system.

“If 10 calls come in, we can distribute all 10 at the same time,” Chief Otto Drozd told WKMG-TV News 6. Drozd is behind the county’s high-tech response revolution just introduced this past May. “Today we are much more efficient than we were just a few months ago,” Drozd said.

Orange County Fire and Rescue averages 119,000 emergency calls every year, and Drozd and his team tell News 6 efficiency and speed is the number one priority. “There is no doubt I know where the call is going when I get the proper address,” said Lt. Robert Izzo who has served with Orange County Fire Rescue for 19 years. “We can actually get a pre-alert on the system so we know even before we walk out the door to the truck where we are going.”

The county’s fire-rescue teams will be integrating faster arrival times with drones and thermal imaging, combining Intel from coal to rescue. “This is really melding all those data bases we have with modern technology in order to get the information to the people who need it in the most timely fashion.” Drozd said.

Preliminary data for the station alert system shows that response times are cut as much as a minute per incident.

Orange County Fire Rescue is one of the first departments to use the technology but more than 385 cities worldwide use similar technologies serving roughly 24 million people.

For more information, visit www.stationalerting.com.

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Posted: Aug 11, 2017

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Posted: Aug 10, 2017

Four People Injured in Crash Involving Dallas Fire Apparatus

Authorities say four people were injured when a fire truck collided with a car in Dallas Thursday morning.
Dallas police said a Dallas Fire-Rescue truck was returning to the fire station when it collided with a sedan in the 7000 block of Great Trinity Forest Way near Jim Miller Road at 1:40 a.m.

Police said an 18-year-old woman driving the sedan changed lanes and turned in the past of the fire truck, which caused the fire truck to crash into the back of the sedan.

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