Martin Pang, the arsonist who set the deadliest blaze in the Seattle Fire Department’s history, will have to pay nearly $3 million in restitution and other legal costs when he’s released from prison, according to an opinion published Tuesday by the state Court of Appeals. Pang, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for setting a massive warehouse fire in January 1995 that killed four firefighters in the Chinatown International District, filed a motion in King County Superior Court in August 2015 seeking relief from his legal financial obligations, known as LFOs.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2017 10:37:09 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

Bronto Skylift, a leading manufacturer of truck-mounted aerial work platforms (AWPs), has named TGM Wind Services LLC, an AWP rental specialist, as Distributor for Bronto products in the states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan.

This expanding partnership with Bronto Skylift will enable a steady and continuous growth for TGM in the US market and provide more opportunities for end-users to expand the usage of truck-mounted AWPs in new markets beyond the wind-power and electric utility industry.

The relationship between Bronto and TGM began in 2009, and since then TGM has been an innovator and leader in the rental of AWPs not only to the wind generation industry, but also to all industries requiring high-level overhead access, including petro-chem, power generation plants, TV media, and electrical utility transmission maintenance. Today, TGM owns 19 Bronto units ranging in working heights from 150 feet to 295 feet and is the fastest-growing private customer of Bronto Skylift in the United States.

TGM Wind Services will be present in its new role at Bronto Skylift’s booth no. 701 at NATE UNITE 2017 Conference & Exposition in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 27-March 2, 2017. NATE UNITE is an annual event for key decision makers in the broadcast and telecommunications tower erection, service, and maintenance industry.

For more information, please contact Janne Pulkkinen, Vice President, Bronto Skylift Inc, tel. 321 666 0286, janne.pulkkinen@brontoskylift.com.

 

Peter Luhrs joined the Safe Fleet team as Director of Integrated Control Systems. He will report to Toh Meng, Senior Vice President, Emergency & Industrial and office out of the Fire Research Corporation facilities in New York.

"Peter brings many years of Electronic Control solution experience, including the last eighteen within the fire industry market. In addition, Peter is an active Fire Apparatus Manufacturer's Association member and serves as the Electrical Technical Sub-Committee Co-Chair. He also participates in the National Marine Electronics Association and is on the Steering Committee for the National Association of School Directors for Pupil Transportation," according to Meng. "We are pleased and excited to have Peter join the team and look forward to his contributions towards our initiatives."

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Motorola Solutions and RapidSOS announced they will work together to increase the data available to public safety agencies and first responders, providing critical information to accelerate response times and improve emergency outcomes. 

Imagine if first responders arrived at an incident armed with precise location information, real-time medical information for those involved and live video of the scene. Yet today, the estimated 500,000 mobile 911 calls coming into U.S. public safety answering points (PSAPs) daily provide only the basics about the caller’s location and nature of the emergency.

With RapidSOS, third-party data collected by smartphones, connected cars, wearables, and other connected devices will flow through Motorola Solutions’ emergency response systems, from 911 call-takers and dispatchers to police officers and emergency medical personnel in the field, creating end-to-end emergency data connectivity.

"We believe in technology that gets the right information to the right person, at the right time and in the right way," said Eduardo Conrado, executive vice president, Strategy & Innovation Office, Motorola Solutions. "Our work with RapidSOS adds a new dimension to our software solutions for the command center, enabling critical information to be shared with the people who need it most."

RapidSOS’ technology takes in information from any properly credentialed connected device and transmits it in a way that is compatible with existing 911 and emergency response systems. It can transmit data related to voice, location, multimedia including photos and videos from scene, type of emergency, medical and demographic data, real-time health information from wearables (heart rate, blood oxygen level, glucose) and vehicle telematics (airbag deployment, occupancy, speed before impact).

Data delivered by RapidSOS will be available as modules across Motorola Solutions’ command center software solutions, allowing PSAP personnel and first responders to choose the data they want, including wireless location, multimedia or health information.

“RapidSOS has advanced information about users in an emergency, and working with Motorola Solutions makes all of this rich data actionable,” said Michael Martin, chief executive officer, RapidSOS. “Our combined efforts provide the public safety community with the option for what, when, and how data is conveyed to them in an emergency to save lives.”

This relationship enhances Motorola Solutions’ portfolio of Smart Public Safety Solutions, which enables public safety agencies to turn data into intelligence.

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