TASK FORCE TIPS (TFT) has announced that Philip Gerace, former KME director of sales and marketing, has been named the company’s new vice president of marketing and will be based at the company’s worldwide headquarters in Valparaiso, Indiana. “This is one of those opportunities I couldn’t pass up, because TFT is a rare company that values its employees, takes great pride in the quality products it produces, and goes out of its way to serve those who serve,” Gerace explains.
“In the business world, you often come across those who say one thing and end up doing another as they grow. That isn’t true of TFT. This is a homegrown company that has maintained and built on the values it has had ever since the day the company started.” As with his earlier position at KME, Gerace sees himself first and foremost as a team member, “because if you’re part of the team, then you serve a critical role,” he explains. “A team can always develop more than an individual who is left by his or herself.”
OSHKOSH AIRPORT PRODUCTS, LLC, an Oshkosh Corporation company, has received an order for 24 Oshkosh® Striker® aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) vehicles from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). The purchase includes 14 Oshkosh Striker 6x6 vehicles, seven of which are equipped with a 65-foot Snozzle® high reach extendable turret (HRET), and 10 Striker 4x4 apparatus.
The PANYNJ also purchased a Striker Simulator virtual reality training system. The vehicles will be placed into service at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark International Airport, LaGuardia International Airport, and Teterboro Airport. The Snozzle HRET features a hardened carbide steel tip, a perforated nozzle, and a forward-looking infrared camera. The vehicles’ firefighting systems include tri-agent capabilities featuring Halotron, dry chemical, foam, and water.
The Striker Simulator system depicts a nearly endless array of training scenarios for ARFF organizations. The virtual reality training system incorporates video footage and illustrated environments of Striker vehicles in action with views from both inside and outside of the cab.
KIMTEK® CORPORATION has announced the launch of its new Web site dedicated to the needs of firefighting agencies using pickups and flatbed trucks for off-road wildland firefighting. The new Web site, www.brushtruckskids.com, can be accessed directly or linked via the company’s main Web site, www.kimtekresearch.com.
The new site features the company’s FIRELITE Transport Series of fire skid slip-on transport units equipped with lifetime-warrantied copolymer water tanks, Honda-driven Darley-Davey pumps, Hannay reels, and Scotty Foam Systems. Available in multiple configurations, they feature all aluminum diamond plate construction and stainless steel piping and are available with storage areas, patient rescue areas, or fully enclosed brush fire equipment boxes and preconnected crosslay trays.
TRIDENT EMERGENCY PRODUCTS recently announced the UL listing of its Titan GP160 series foam pumps for fixed foam system applications under UL 448C - UL File #EX27082. The GP160 foam pump