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.
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The Washington State Patrol says about 20 rounds of ammunition have gone off during a car fire in Bellevue.
The car erupted in flames on northbound I-405 at SR 520 Friday at about 10:42 a.m. The fire has since been put out by firefighters at the scene.
The four right lanes are blocked. Traffic is getting by in the express toll lanes.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2017 11:13:12 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7
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Posted: Sep 8, 2017
Coxreels introduces the all new gear reducing idler sprockets for the 1195 Series electric motorized hose reels. This new add-on benefits the user in reducing the rewind speed, increasing motor torque, and fitting an optional 3-way pin lock.
These high-quality, all steel, idler sprockets are chain sprocket assemblies with a corrosion protectiive coating that change the drive ratio of the motor-to-drum drive system. They are available in three ratios (1:2, 1:3, and 1:4) and each ratio will effectively slow down the rewind speed of the drum by a multiple of the ratio factor and will increase the effective motor torque by the same factor, providing the necessary safety and control during rewind of large, 2” diameter hose.
Coxreels idler sprockets are mounted on zinc plated steel axle and rotate on two self-lubricated bronze bearings.
The electric rewind versions of the 1195 will now come standard with 1:3 gear reduction and the model number has changed accordingly. Non-reduced models will be available if requested for use with electronic speed reducers.
For more information, visit www.coxreels.com.
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Cincinnati’s Fire Station 35 designed by MSA Architecture impressed the F.I.E.R.O. Fire Station Design Award Jury by the way the floor plan responds to a site that is constricted in width at the street edge and challenged by a drop off in topography on the opposite end.
Courtesy of the Fire Industry Education Resource Organization (F.I.E.R.O.)
The following are 10 station design tips compiled by members of F.I.E.R.O. compiled by its Jurors years of experience in designing fire stations as well as judging station designs for its Fire Station Design Symposium awards entries.
- Provide a place for the kitchen garbage and recycling cans so they are not out in the floor in the way—not to mention unsightly.
- Design a dedicated room off the apparatus floor that is dark and well ventilated for PPE storage.
- If possible, hire an architect that has experience in designing at least a few fire stations. If this is not possible, there are many excellent architects who you can require to team up with an architect or fire station design consultant to get the job done on your station. Even experienced fire station architects at some point designed their first fire station.
- In checking the references for fire station architects, check not only the references given, but check also for previous clients not on the reference list. These do not have to be fire station clients to learn something of the performance of the architect.
- Many training props can be designed into a station without negatively impacting the normal functions and appearance of the station.
- Required stairwells in two-story fire stations can often be extended upward one or two levels to double as training towers or even hose towers.
- Be sure the fitness room can be viewed via a glass wall to help ensure that someone working out does not go down unnoticed.
- Bifold bay doors are expensive up front, but they open and close faster, last longer, require less maintenance, and are less likely to be struck by apparatus leaving the station. They are always in view of the operator to complete open position.
- A decontamination area is needed adjacent to the apparatus bay. The decontamination area should have large stainless steel sinks and perhaps a shower stall as well.
- All fire stations should have a backup emergency power supply that can power the entire station or at least the essential parts of it. The public needs to know the fire department is open for business while the rest of the community may not be.
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Kate Rodeman sat among friends and family as the letter she wrote to the man who killed her husband was read to a courtroom full of people.
"When you killed my husband, you turned my life into pure chaos," said Justin Conklin, the Lansing firefighter who read the letter on her behalf. "His death did not only break my heart, it broke all of me and more.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Livingston Daily Press & Argus
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