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Tuscaloosa County (AL) VFD Burglarized, Fire Apparatus Stolen, Abandoned
Tuscaloosa County (AL) VFD Burglarized, Fire Apparatus Stolen, Abandoned
Posted: Mar 6, 2018

Tuscaloosa County (AL) VFD Burglarized, Fire Apparatus Stolen, Abandoned

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The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating after the Mayfield Volunteer Fire Department, not far from the Tuscaloosa-Fayette County Line, was burglarized early Tuesday morning. The Mayfield Fire Chief says not only was the station burglarized, but two fire trucks were stolen, then run off the road and abandoned.

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Chief Tim Brown says a citizen called him early this morning after they saw two of his department's trucks off the side of Hwy 171. Brown says he found someone had forced their way into the department, loaded up one of the fire trucks with supplies, then left the trucks stuck on the side of the road. Wreckers had to retrieve the vehicles. They were driven back to the station, but the extent of the damage to them was unclear Tuesday morning. Brown says until the investigation is complete, his department has no equipment to serve the community. He says his department has been the victim of attempted burglaries before, but nothing like this.
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West Covina (CA) Fire Engine Company's Fate to be Decided
West Covina (CA) Fire Engine Company's Fate to be Decided
Posted: Mar 6, 2018

West Covina (CA) Fire Engine Company's Fate to be Decided

Sgvtribune

After 10 months of uncertainty, the West Covina City Council is set to decide Tuesday whether or not to eliminate one of the city's five fire engine companies. In 2011, city staff first proposed eliminating Engine 4 as a remedy to the city's budget woes, but the city applied for and received a federal grant that allowed it to reinstate the engine company, typically staffed by three people at a time.

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The city received the grant again in 2014, and it funded 13 positions but did not cover overtime, equipment or hiring costs that had previously been covered by the first grant, according to a city staff report.  

Conflict arose in May 2017 when the grant funding dried out, and instead of reapplying months earlier, the city reverted to its plan to eliminate Engine 4, according to the staff report. Doing so would save the city an estimated $1.56 million per year, according to a staff report to the council.

The city and the West Covina Firefighters’ Association could not agree on a new staffing model — the city had proposed eliminating six vacant positions and demoting three captains and three engineers — so the two sides entered arbitration with the California Public Employment Relations Board.

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Honolulu Fire Apparatus Spotted on Arizona Roads
Honolulu Fire Apparatus Spotted on Arizona Roads
Posted: Mar 6, 2018

Honolulu Fire Apparatus Spotted on Arizona Roads

Hawaii News Now

A bizarre sight on the mainland: A Honolulu Fire Department truck was spotted driving on roadways in Arizona. Photos were taken of HFD’s newest ladder truck as it went through Flagstaff and Kingman this week.

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HFD said the new engine was made in Pennsylvania and is being driven across the country to a port on the West Coast to be shipped to Oahu.
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Posted: Mar 6, 2018

Arlington, firefighters disagree on Senate Bill 6213

Officials from Arlington’s firefighters union are disappointed after a bill that would have given greater coverage for some health risks was lobbied against by an Arlington representative. Senate Bill 6213 would have added a number of cancers that are presumed to be covered by workers compensation for firefighters and would have provided some other additional health benefits for law enforcement officers as well.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2018 2:21:13 PM - SOURCE: North Couty Outlook
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Posted: Mar 6, 2018

s.QUAD Voice: Best in Class

New Swissphone voice pager

Swissphone has developed a new s.QUAD Voice pager called s.QUAD Voice 360 that has a rotary knob that controls volume and switches between alerting modes. As with the normal s.QUAD Voice, the s.QUAD Voice 360 can be upgraded by a firmware update to a digital paging receiver (POCSAG), or it can work in both modes in parallel as a single device.

The table compares the essential performance characteristics of the most current pagers available in the US. It indicates that the s.QUAD Voice is best when it comes to:

  • Extremely Robust: Protection class and drop test, providing the ruggedness and quality for it to last.
  • Best Reception, allowing you to extend the coverage of your network.
  • Loudest of them all, making this device among the loudest in the world.
  • Multi-color alert, its multi-colored alarm LED allows recognizing an alarm even in mute mode.
  • Longest Battery Life of up to a week (160 hours) with an ordinary AA (R6) battery.
  • Size and weight, providing a design that is comfortable for any user to wear

 

For more information, CLICK HERE or download this whitepaper.

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