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The Mobile Ready Rack comes complete with open wire shelving; heavy-duty 5” casters; full-length grid dividers; apparel hooks; label holder; and hanging pole. Single-sided units also come with 4” tall back ledges. The racks are made with a durable, heavy-duty zinc chromate finish with a special clear-coat sealer. Single-sided units are available in red and black powder-coated finishes. Additional accessories are also available. Original Ready Racks are available for surplus gear storage also.

Specifications for Mobile Ready Racks include:

PRODUCT NUMBER(S) / LENGTH:

SINGLE SIDED:

• MSS-3 Three sections - 24" per section
• MSS-4 Four sections – 18" per section
• MSS-5 Five sections – 14" per section
• MSS-6 Six sections – 12" per section

DOUBLE SIDED:

• MDS-6 Six sections – 24" per section
• MDS-8 Eight sections – 18" per section
• MDS-10 Ten sections – 14" per section 
• MDS-12 Twelve sections – 12" per section 

CUSTOM COLOR:

• MSS-3-RED Three sections - 24" per section
• MSS-4-RED Four sections, 18" per section
• MSS-5-RED Five sections, 14" per section
• MSS-6-RED Six sections, 12" per section
• MSS-3-BLK Three sections - 24" per section
• MSS-4-BLK Four sections, 18" per section
• MSS-5-BLK Five sections, 14" per section
• MSS-6-BLK Six sections, 12" per section

Single-side units measure 72” L x 21” D x 79” T, and double-sided units measure 72” L x 36” D x 79” T

For more information, visit www.readyrack.com.

Fire Station Outfitters is committed to providing Xtreme Seating for extreme conditions that is fair and reasonably priced and built to a high standard of quality and craftsmanship. The company is committed to providing the very best customer service that is unparalleled in today’s furniture industry.

The furniture features heavily padded arms, side panels, and backs with no facbric-on-wood applications. The hardwood seat boxes feature steel sinuous springs that help provide a premium seating platform. The seat core is high-density solid foam. The mechanical features of the furniture features all-steel Leggett & Platt mechanisms with 7/8 gauge components in high-stress areas, supporting up to 350 pounds. The furniture is constructed with a plywood frame and solid one-piece arm frame construction secured with mortise and tenon joints.

The recliners, sofas, and loveseats are easy to assemble. Sofas and loveseats ship in shrink wrap and are delivered by Styline Logistics. They are packed in pieces—the seat and the backs on top. The backs simply slide into the two metal channel pieces on the back of the seat and backs automatically lock into place. This installation process takes about 10 minutes from unpacking the sofas and loveseats to sliding the back into place. The recliners ship in a box and install the same way. Since they are big, they are easier to move in several pieces. Once at the desired location, slide the back into the seat channels and stretch the fabric on the hook-and-loop tabs, and the installation is complete.

For more information, visit www.firestationoutfitters.com.

LINCOLN, NE—When there is an emergency, seconds matter. Lincoln (NE) Fire and Rescue along with the Lincoln Lancaster County Emergency Communications Center are working to reduce the time it takes to dispatch a call and respond to an emergency. A new fire station dispatch system is now in place.

“With the new system, I can dispatch multiple units at multiple times,” Dispatcher Carson Coles said. “So, for instance if there is a fire and a medical at the same time, previously I would have to choose the higher priority and dispatch that.”

“This is critical because faster response can mean better outcomes,” Eric Jones, LFR battalion chief, said. “This kind of technology helps our emergency dispatchers as well as our firefighters achieve their mission and enhances our service to the community.”

Jones said the system has additional benefits. The alarm tones used at fire stations have been shown to increase heart and blood pressure rates in firefighters, which can contribute to cardiovascular disease. “Science has shown the (new) tone alerts them in a way that is less adverse. Any one call, it’s not a big deal, but you do a job 30 years, it makes a difference.” Chief Michael Despain said.

Fire stations now have digital screens that alert crews of the type of call, the address, and the units that need to respond. “Prior to this, they would get the audible. Maybe it was scratchy, or maybe the dispatcher was processing two calls. They would have to wait until they got to the computer system before they determined if that was their call,” Despain said.

In terms of “turnout” time, the new screens will help speed the time along as crews are processed out of the station. The screens are placed so that they are seeing the visual cues of where they are going on the way out of the building.

Jones said the new fire station dispatch system can reduce turnout time by 15 or more seconds.

The system was funded through a $610,000 federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant. LFR was responsible for a 10-percent match.

For more information, visit www.stationalerting.com.

One of the most rewarding aspects of working at US Digital Designs (USDD) is seeing how ITS fire alerting system technology has so many lifesaving applications across a range of towns, cities, and municipalities throughout the world.

USDD felt that satisfaction anew recently, as it partnered with the city of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to implement its Phoenix G2 Fire Alerting System in that community.

Dave Zittlow, manager of Fond du Lac’s Information Technology Department, commented that the city has long been investigating ways to improve response times for its local fire department. He said that involved selecting and installing a new fire alerting system in an effort to improve the time between the incoming 911 calls and the time that fire and emergency crews arrive on the scene.

Zittlow explained that the project involves putting infrastructure in place that gets fire stations information as quickly as possible but with a system that also can deliver updates to crews en route to a call.

Enter the Phoenix G2 Fire Alerting System
Zittlow says that with installation well underway, the department is currently getting to the testing phase of the project.

USDD’s local partner in the implementation of the new system is General Communications, one of Wisconsin’s largest two-way radio dealers. The company’s expertise in wireless communications systems was a key point in its selection.

For more information, visit www.stationalerting.com.