Holden, LA—The City and County of San Francisco, California, has awarded Ferrara Fire Apparatus a contract for five years to build triple combination pumpers. The pumpers will be built on the Igniter chassis and will carry 500 gallons of water.

Chris Ferrara, president and CEO, states, “To be awarded a contract by the City of San Francisco is an honor and reward for this company, and we are excited to start building the first round of eight trucks for the city.”

Ferrara Fire Apparatus custom manufactures a complete line of heavy-duty fire, emergency, and rescue vehicles. The custom chassis selection includes the Ultra, Inferno, Igniter, and Cinder. Ferrara’s line of fire apparatus includes the MVP rescue pumper, custom and commercial pumpers and tankers, rear- and midmount aerial ladders and platforms, walk-in and walk-around rescues, incident command trucks and trailers, wildland interface, and the Inundator high-flow industrial pumper. 

Ferrara offers safety items such as on-site tilt table testing, cab and body ECE-29 crash testing, independent front suspension, Complete Airbag Protection, and the SmartWheel steering system.

For more information, visit www.ferrarafire.com.

Dallas Fire-Rescue officials are sick of ever-increasing ambulance runs. But they say they have two remedies coming: a new dispatch system and an expansion of a program in which the department's paramedics make house calls. Fire officials told members of the City Council's Public Safety Committee on Monday that they are nearly ready to buy new dispatch software that will help separate true emergencies such as heart attacks from routine medical issues such as stubbed toes.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dallas Morning News

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- PUB DATE: 9/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

The city of Vancouver hired an outside investigator earlier this year to look into issues of gender-based discrimination within the Vancouver Fire Department. That inquiry is ongoing now. Emails obtained by The Columbian raise questions about how female firefighters are treated in Vancouver. In April, a firefighter was using the women’s restroom at Station 10 when her male boss walked in on her.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbian

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- PUB DATE: 9/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Middletown Times Herald-Record