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Posted: Jan 18, 2017

Northport City Council (AL) Discusses Fire Apparatus Disposal

The Northport City Council is expected to discuss options for disposing of a surplus fire truck when it meets Jan. 23.As part of pre-meeting discussions Jan. 23, the council will get a chance to consider whether to donate the truck to a volunteer fire department or sell it at auction, according to Councilman Rodney Sullivan.

Depending on which option is chosen, the council could take up the matter as an action item in February, Sullivan said.

The 2005-model Ferrara Fire Apparatus truck was discussed Tuesday during the city's Public Safety Committee meeting.

The Northport fire department is recommending the truck be disposed of as surplus, according to Fire Chief Bart Marshall. Marshall was unsure of how much the fire truck would fetch at auction. The truck has been stripped of useful spare equipment, he said. The department is also recommending the city dispose of a 2000 Ford Expedition, which has been used as a command vehicle.

So far, three regional volunteer departments have expressed interest in the fire truck, Marshall said. The department consulted with the county's volunteer fire department association.

The departments are in the Englewood community, Sipsey Valley and in Fayette County, Marshall said. Marshall recommended donating the truck be donated to Sipsey Valley, the closest of the three, if the council decides not to sell the truck, allowing it to be close enough to remain a local resource for the city.

 

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Posted: Jan 18, 2017

Shooting drill preps Bainbridge Island emergency responders for the real thing

Sean Liberman met the group of stretcher-carrying medics and their police escort at a side entrance to Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church. It was a silent and gruesome greeting. Liberman was “dead,” sprawled out in front of the double-glass doors, with a bullet hole in his forehead. The grisly scene stretched out left and right, down a hallway where scattered groups of the wounded victims of a mass shooter sat in shock, down stairwells and through classrooms, offices and restrooms on the church’s basement floor.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2017 1:02:49 PM - SOURCE: Bainbridge Island Review
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Posted: Jan 18, 2017

Seattle arsonist Martin Pang on the hook for nearly $3M in restitution, other legal costs

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
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Posted: Jan 18, 2017

Bronto Skylift Inc. Names TGM Wind Services as Distributor for 10 States

 Bronto Skylift Inc. Names TGM Wind Services as Distributor for 10 States

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.

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Posted: Jan 18, 2017

Safe Fleet Adds Peter Luhrs to the Technical Team

 Safe Fleet Adds Peter Luhrs to the Technical Team

 

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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