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Posted: Sep 8, 2017

Tullahoma Fire Department Improves ISO Rating to 2

The fire department in the small Coffee County, Tenn., town of Tullahoma recently improved its ISO classification enough to place it in the top 3 percent of departments in the state, a designation that means lower fire insurance premiums for residents and business owners.

The new rating comes from a combination of improvements ranging from increased training and better equipment maintenance to backup turnout gear, air tanks and portable radios for every member of the department.


A partnership among the fire department, the Tullahoma Utilities Authority and the Coffee County Consolidated Communications Center led to the communications upgrades and improved water distribution to the 1,300 hydrants in the town.


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Posted: Sep 8, 2017

Fire Department Saves Life After Winning Grain Rescue Tube and Training

It was 9:53 a.m. on Aug. 8. A local farmer had just fallen into a bin of rotting corn in a small, rural community on the outskirts of the county. By the time Webb arrived on the scene less than 10 minutes later, the farmer was engulfed in corn up to his neck.

Webb’s fire department is one of dozens in some of the country’s top farming communities that have received life-saving grain rescue tubes and training as part of Nationwide’s annual Nominate Your Fire Department Contest. Another one of those winners — the Westphalia Fire Department in Kansas — also used their new skills in 2015 to rescue a man who had become entrapped in a grain bin.


“It only takes seconds to become entrapped in grain and less than a minute to become completely engulfed,” said Brad Liggett, president of Nationwide Agribusiness, the No. 1 farm insurer1. “Once grain is above knee-level, it is nearly impossible to get out without assistance. Until we can convince all farmers and other grain handlers to develop a zero-entry mentality, we will strive to make tubes and rescue training as widely available as possible.”


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Posted: Sep 8, 2017

Fire Station Aims to Prevent Firefighter Cancer Risk

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.- The Pike Township Fire Department broke ground on what will be a brand new, state-of-the-art firehouse on Thursday. Incorporated into the design of this new facility will be many ways to help firefighters lessen their chances of developing cancer, as research has shown firefighters have an increased risk of cancer and cancer-related deaths.

Incorporated into the design of this new facility will be many ways to help firefighters lessen their chances of developing cancer, as research has shown firefighters have an increased risk of cancer and cancer-related deaths.


According to a recent CDC study, firefighters were found to have a greater risk of digestive, oral and respiratory cancers. In Pike Township, the number of current and retired firefighters with cancer diagnoses is about ten percent.


Recently, Pike Township put measures into place to lessen their employees’ exposure to two of the biggest carcinogens connected to fighting fires: truck exhaust and burning materials.


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Posted: Sep 8, 2017

County Plans 2 New Fire Stations

Maury County will begin seeking locations for two new volunteer fire stations in Hampshire and the Carter's Creek area.The county's building committee assigned Commission Chairman Michael Fulbright, Mayor Charlie Norman and Fire Chief Eric Hileman to form a special committee to begin the search for the potential sites."We went through the strategic planning process and these are two areas, as far as the safety concerns of the county, we wanted to focus on first,"

The county’s building committee assigned Commission Chairman Michael Fulbright, Mayor Charlie Norman and Fire Chief Eric Hileman to form a special committee to begin the search for the potential sites.


“We went through the strategic planning process and these are two areas, as far as the safety concerns of the county, we wanted to focus on first,” Fulbright said. “We want to bolster those areas and make sure we give them adequate fire coverage and give the people what they need.”


The two stations would decrease the response time to any fires or emergency situations in the two areas, cutting down volunteer response distances.


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Posted: Sep 8, 2017

Emergency Reporting and First Due Size-Up Announce Integration and Partnership to Serve Fire and EMS Department Operations

Bellingham, WA, 9/7/17 – Emergency Reporting®,  a leader in cloud-based Fire and EMS records management and prevention software, announced today an integration and partnership with First Due Size-Up, a cloud-based platform solving data problems for fire department operations. The relationship is designed to deliver critical fire prevention and risk assessment data to personnel in the field resulting in safer operations and better incident outcomes. 

Detailed fire inspection and prevention data is combined with data from the assessor, building department, RMS, Google and more  – on 100% of the residential and commercial buildings in a district - then visualized in a simple, quick-to-consume format delivered on every screen or device from Dispatch to MDTs (Mobile Data Terminals). This gives crews the information they need to make better decisions in seconds. 

Check out the explainer video: http://firstduesizeup.com/er-explainer/ and for more information please contact us here: http://firstduesizeup.com/emergencyreporting/ 

The integrated solution easily connects with the agency’s CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) system to automatically provide responders in the field with the online and offline critical data they need before arriving on scene . The solution fits into any dispatch operation and is 100% device-agnostic as long as that device is integrated with the department’s dispatch process and CAD. 

 “Fire chiefs have been asking for better, more actionable data in the field for a very long time. There has just never been an easy, effective way to share or access data across agencies and data silos until now. We could not be more excited to help fire departments run safer operations around the country alongside Emergency Reporting Systems” said Andreas Huber, First Due Size-Up CEO. 

“Just the ability to easily access Assessor records provides great value,” said Ed O’Neill, Emergency Reporting Executive Director. “Add to that all the other types of data First Due SizeUp compiles and provides en route and you have an integration that can actually save lives. Our focus with our records management system has always been on efficiency, cost savings and safety, so this was a natural partnership for us to pursue.” 

 

About Emergency Reporting 

Emergency Reporting (ER) is a privately held Washington State corporation specializing in cloudbased records management software solutions for Fire/Rescue and EMS agencies of all sizes, DoD/military branches worldwide, and large entities with self-contained Fire & EMS services like NASA, nuclear power plants, hospitals and oil refineries. ER is known as the most trusted, easiest to use RMS. 

To request more information about our products, please fill out the short form at https://explore.emergencyreporting.com/information-request-form/, or visit www.emergencyreporting.com.  

 

About First Due Size-Up 

 First Due Size-Up (FDSU) is on a mission to end first responder injuries due to a lack of information. Headquartered in New York City, venture-backed FDSU’s cloud-based platform is solving the data problem for fire and EMS departments in 15+ states and partnered with leaders across the Fire and EMS Service to create a new standard in modern emergency response.  

To request more information or get in touch with the FDSU team, please contact us here: Read more

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