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Posted: Oct 31, 2018

Mountain Home Fire Department (AR) Gets Real-Time Mapping in Fire Apparatus

The system is called Active911 and involves software loaded on smart phones and tablets. The fire department is in the process of mounting iPads in fire trucks to accommodate the new software.  

As an example, let's say there is an accident on the Sheid-Hopper Bypass. A witness with a cell phone calls 911 and says the accident is on the bypass "near" College Street.

The 911 system pings the person's cell phone and gets the address of the nearest cell tower. When they dispatch the Mountain Home Fire Department, the address of that cell tower will populate on the iPads in the trucks and on any firefighter's smart phone.

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Posted: Oct 31, 2018

Glenmoor (OH) Fire Apparatus Falls Into Ditch

The 2017 Ford F-550 rescue truck was being driven by firefighter John Dear, who was responding to a medical call on Susan Drive to assist North Star Critical Care, according to Chief Bill Bennett.  

When Dear turned from Annesley Road onto Y&O Road, the truck suddenly entered a ditch, traveling several yards before going airborne across a driveway and landing on its side in the ditch. Both airbags were deployed, and the truck had visible damage, but Bennett said the insurance company will have to assess the damage to the vehicle, which he said has only been in service since the beginning of the year.

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Posted: Oct 31, 2018

South Portland (ME) New Fire Apparatus Catches Fire During Training Exercise

The city said a crew of three firefighters were training in the rear parking lot of the Cash Corner fire station when the truck’s aerial ladder made contact with some power lines along Skillin Street, damaging portions of the truck’s electrical system, the city said in a written statement.

 

The three firefighters who were training with the truck were able to escape the vehicle and extinguish the flames.  

The ladder controls were also damaged by the electrical current. No one was hurt.

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Posted: Oct 31, 2018

Ocean City (NJ) New Fire Apparatus Arrives

The dimensions are impressive, too. It is 42 feet long, 12 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs a hefty 70,800 pounds and has an aerial ladder that extends 107 feet into the air.  

“It continues the benchmark,” Fire Chief Jim Smith said of the city’s commitment to public safety while showing off the new truck on Tuesday.  

Smith explained that the truck’s 107-foot-high boom arm is needed to fight high-rise fires that could strike the taller hotels and condominiums in town. It will also give firefighters the ability to hover over homes and other smaller buildings and douse them with a spray of water.

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Posted: Oct 31, 2018

Jack Daniel's® Limited Edition Indian® Scout® Bobber Sells for $28K at Firefighters for Healing Charity Auction

A summer-long charity auction for a Jack Daniel’s® Limited Edition Indian® Scout® Bobber came to a close this month when the $16,999 bike was sold for $28,000. Indian Motorcycle donated the bike to “Firefighters For Healing,” a non-profit foundation whose mission is to support children impacted by burn trauma and their families. Proceeds raised from the organization’s annual Red Tie Gala will provide care for burn survivors and firefighters in Minnesota 

 

 The Jack Daniel’s Limited Edition Indian Scout Bobber was introduced in March 2018. Pre-orders for the 177, individually-numbered Scout Bobbers quickly filled up in less than 10 minutes. The limited-edition motorcycle takes inspiration from the Jack Daniel’s Fire Brigade and their impressive gold and black firetrucks. The collaboration between Jack Daniel’s, Indian Motorcycle, and Klock Werks Kustom Cycles was designed as a tribute piece to firefighters and first responders everywhere.

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