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Posted: Jan 9, 2019

Galesburg (IL) Fire Department Receives New Fire Apparatus

 
 
 

Galesburg Fire Chief Tom Simkins announced the arrival via an email Wednesday morning and said firefighters will train on it this week with Alexis Fire Equipment. The new engine will be in service early next week.  

“The 78-foot ladder truck is known as the Swiss army knife of the fire service because of its versatility and capabilities that are a mix of a pumper, ladder and rescue truck,” Simkins wrote in the email.  

Galesburg City Council approved the purchase of the new truck in February 2018 to replace the 1988 ladder truck damaged in the Route 41 crash. The cost was $684,174, according to City Council documents, and the department’s insurance carrier covered $623,775 for the claim.

1/1HIDE CAPTION The Galesburg Fire Department received its new ladder truck Wednesday morning. Engine 54 replaces the truck damaged in a rollover crash on Illinois 41 in 2017. [SUBMITTED PHOTO]
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Posted: Jan 9, 2019

Westford (MA) Fire Station Offers "Safe Room"

 
 
 

With the recent opening on the town’s newest station on Boston Road, there have been new advances in fire prevention technology unveiled. From state-of-the-art life-saving devices, to an updated living and working space, to a new apparatus brought in to replace an aging engine, nothing stands out to the crew like the safety vestibule.  

When entering the new building, visitors pass through the lock-down room, which looks like any other office building vestibule. It is the small space between the parking lot and the the main lobby of the department’s HQ and has a window leading to the Office of Fire Prevention, staffed during business hours by Lt. Donald R. Parsons. To the left is a small, yellow box with a red button. That button locks both doors, not allowing anyone from the outside, in, and alerting central dispatch at the Westford Police Station of an emergency.

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Posted: Jan 9, 2019

City Council Approves UC San Diego Fire Station

 
 

“UC San Diego is pleased that the San Diego City Council has approved a fire station to be built on the campus,” UCSD Chancellor Pradeep K.Khosla said. “We look forward to working together with the City of San Diego on this vital project. UC San Diego is significantly growing its enrollment to make the university one of the nation’s premier residential campuses and it is critical that we address life safety issues as part of our growth.”  

More than 36,000 students currently live on UCSD’s campus, with the school planning to add another 20,000 student beds by 2022. According to city officials, the rapid campus growth has led to an increase in incidents in an area that is currently outside the area that existing fire stations can cover.

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Posted: Jan 9, 2019

City Plans Payment to Student Hit by Dayton (OH) Fire Apparatus

Kane, a Westerville resident and University of Dayton student, was riding a mountain bike in a bike lane headed south on Brown Street by the University of Dayton.

The fire truck was headed south on Brown Street when it turned right into United Dairy Farmers, a gas station and convenience store.

 

The truck “failed to yield to the bike lane” and Kane became trapped under the front passenger wheel, the report states.

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Posted: Jan 9, 2019

Vector Solutions Expands Capabilities with Acquisition of Oregon-Based CrewSense

Vector Solutions

Vector Solutions, the leader in industry-focused eLearning and performance support solutions, expands its capabilities with the acquisition of CrewSense, the leading employee resourcing and human capital management software for mission-critical sectors including public safety, utilities, and manufacturing.

Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Grants Pass, Oregon, CrewSense is used by over 650 mission-critical organizations and 100,000+ users across North America. The platform provides modules for automating complex 24/7 shift scheduling, union-based overtime rules, time and attendance records and more. It provides a cloud-hosted intelligent, rules-based system that allows administrators to alert, match-qualify and fill openings quickly with zero human interaction required.

“The addition of CrewSense adds highly sought-after shift scheduling and workforce management capability into the Vector Solutions product portfolio,” said Marc Scheipe, Vector EVP Public Sector Business Unit. “This new capability solves a problem many of our public sector clients grapple with - streamlining, automating and managing complex and ever-changing employee shift needs. TargetSolutions customers have expressed great interest in going to one place to do most of their work and this acquisition gives them that opportunity.”

“We are thrilled with this exciting new partnership, and how it will provide our clients access to even more incredible solutions, additional technology strength, and continued commitment to innovation,” said Casey McIntosh, Founder and CEO of CrewSense. “This will allow us to more rapidly execute on our product development roadmap, leverage the world class customer support capabilities of Vector Solutions and ultimately provide a better overall product experience and value to our customers,” McIntosh said.

The acquisition furthers Vector’s strategy to expand its leading eLearning and training platform into a complete workforce and organization performance optimization solution.

The CrewSense scheduling solution will be offered under Vector’s Public Sector business unit and will be integrated as a product offering under the TargetSolutions brand.

Clients of both Vector and CrewSense can expect to receive the same level of outstanding products and customer service to which they have been accustomed.

The company is working to determine integration plans and more information will be available in the future.

About Vector Solutions

Vector Solutions, a leader in eLearning and performance support, provides award-winning SaaS solutions for the architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), industrial, facilities management, public safety, IT and education industries. Its brands, RedVector-Convergence Training, TargetSolutions, and SafeSchools, deliver continuing education (CE), training, technology and performance management solutions using the latest innovations in learning and technology to create safer, more capable, more compliant organizations. Its extensive online and mobile learning library offers approximately 8,000 courses written by over 250 subject matter experts and reaches over 7 million professionals worldwide. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. For more information, visit www.vectorsolutions.com. Follow us on Twitter @VectorPerform and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/VectorPerformance.

About CrewSense

CrewSense's goal is to create software that empowers your mission-critical workforce. By making the most complicated organizational tasks simple and reliable, CrewSense is re-imagining

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