PIERCE MANUFACTURING INC. announced that it has teamed up with MAXIMETAL, INC., of Saint-Georges de Beauce, Quebec, Canada. Pierce will sell Saber® custom chassis to MAXIMETAL, which, in turn, will manufacture and mount its various firefighting body configurations onto the chassis. The completed apparatus will be marketed across Canada through the Pierce dealer network. Beginning this year, MAXIMETAL will offer pumper and pumper tanker configurations. Additional configurations will be added in the future. Pierce’s Canadian dealers will market and sell these new apparatus on behalf of MAXIMETAL to fire and emergency departments across all provinces.

VERIDIAN FIRE PROTECTIVE GEAR has announced that Dan Tharan has joined the company as northwest regional sales manager in support of its growing regional and national account base.

GLOBE, DUPONT PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES (DUPONT), and the NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL (NVFC) announced the final recipients in the 2015 Globe Gear Giveaway. The Friendship (IN) Volunteer Fire Department and the Rockaway Point (NY) Fire Department were each awarded four sets of new Globe turnout gear. Through this gear donation, the Friendship Volunteer Fire Department will be able to better protect its new and existing members with complete, fitted, compliant gear. The new turnout gear the Rockaway Point Fire Department receives will enable it to replace some of its outdated gear, keeping its members safer and allowing funds to be saved for other needs.

MIDWEST FIRE EQUIPMENT & REPAIR COMPANY (Midwest Fire), an SBA-certified woman-owned small business (WOSB), announced its partnership with the Minnesota State Fire Chiefs Association (MSFCA) to honor Assistant Chief Tate Mills of the Albertville (MN) Fire Department as the 2015 Fire Officer of the Year for departments covering an area with a population of fewer than 10,000. As part of the sponsorship, Midwest Fire provided funds toward Mills’s monetary stipend for leadership training.

Mills has been a member of the Albertville Fire Department for 18 years. For eight years, he was the paid-on-call fire chief for the city of Albertville while also working a full-time job from which he took every other Friday off to dedicate his time to the needs of the Albertville Fire Department. Sarah Atchison, owner and CEO of Midwest Fire, says, “It was gratifying to attend the awards banquet at the conference and meet Chief Mills. [He] was a very deserving candidate, and we look forward to seeing how he continues to grow in his career and inspire others. We hope this award helps him continue to develop his ambition.”

W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, Inc., recently announced an enhancement of the warranty program for its line of moisture barriers and liner systems. This comprehensive program is aligned with the needs of fire departments as they continue to adopt the requirements of NFPA 1851, Standard on Selection, Care, and Maintenance of Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting (2014 ed.). Gore’s new warranty program covers materials and labor performed by participating verified Independent Service Providers (ISPs) and garment manufacturers. The warranty time and specific materials vary depending on the product. In addition to lengthening the warranty on these products, Gore is also extending the warranties retroactively for all of its moisture barriers in the market.

UNITED PLASTIC FABRICATING, Inc. (UPF) has launched its new Web site, located at www.unitedpla

PIERCE MANUFACTURING INC. announced that it has teamed up with MAXIMETAL, INC., of Saint-Georges de Beauce, Quebec, Canada. Pierce will sell Saber® custom chassis to MAXIMETAL, which, in turn, will manufacture and mount its various firefighting body configurations onto the chassis. The completed apparatus will be marketed across Canada through the Pierce dealer network. Beginning this year, MAXIMETAL will offer pumper and pumper tanker configurations. Additional configurations will be added in the future. Pierce’s Canadian dealers will market and sell these new apparatus on behalf of MAXIMETAL to fire and emergency departments across all provinces.

VERIDIAN FIRE PROTECTIVE GEAR has announced that Dan Tharan has joined the company as northwest regional sales manager in support of its growing regional and national account base.

GLOBE, DUPONT PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES (DUPONT), and the NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL (NVFC) announced the final recipients in the 2015 Globe Gear Giveaway. The Friendship (IN) Volunteer Fire Department and the Rockaway Point (NY) Fire Department were each awarded four sets of new Globe turnout gear. Through this gear donation, the Friendship Volunteer Fire Department will be able to better protect its new and existing members with complete, fitted, compliant gear. The new turnout gear the Rockaway Point Fire Department receives will enable it to replace some of its outdated gear, keeping its members safer and allowing funds to be saved for other needs.

MIDWEST FIRE EQUIPMENT & REPAIR COMPANY (Midwest Fire), an SBA-certified woman-owned small business (WOSB), announced its partnership with the Minnesota State Fire Chiefs Association (MSFCA) to honor Assistant Chief Tate Mills of the Albertville (MN) Fire Department as the 2015 Fire Officer of the Year for departments covering an area with a population of fewer than 10,000. As part of the sponsorship, Midwest Fire provided funds toward Mills’s monetary stipend for leadership training.

Mills has been a member of the Albertville Fire Department for 18 years. For eight years, he was the paid-on-call fire chief for the city of Albertville while also working a full-time job from which he took every other Friday off to dedicate his time to the needs of the Albertville Fire Department. Sarah Atchison, owner and CEO of Midwest Fire, says, “It was gratifying to attend the awards banquet at the conference and meet Chief Mills. [He] was a very deserving candidate, and we look forward to seeing how he continues to grow in his career and inspire others. We hope this award helps him continue to develop his ambition.”

W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, Inc., recently announced an enhancement of the warranty program for its line of moisture barriers and liner systems. This comprehensive program is aligned with the needs of fire departments as they continue to adopt the requirements of NFPA 1851, Standard on Selection, Care, and Maintenance of Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting (2014 ed.). Gore’s new warranty program covers materials and labor performed by participating verified Independent Service Providers (ISPs) and garment manufacturers. The warranty time and specific materials vary depending on the product. In addition to lengthening the warranty on these products, Gore is also extending the warranties retroactively for all of its moisture barriers in the market.

UNITED PLASTIC FABRICATING, Inc. (UPF) has launched its new Web site, located at www.unitedpla

PIERCE MANUFACTURING INC. announced that it has teamed up with MAXIMETAL, INC., of Saint-Georges de Beauce, Quebec, Canada. Pierce will sell Saber® custom chassis to MAXIMETAL, which, in turn, will manufacture and mount its various firefighting body configurations onto the chassis. The completed apparatus will be marketed across Canada through the Pierce dealer network. Beginning this year, MAXIMETAL will offer pumper and pumper tanker configurations. Additional configurations will be added in the future. Pierce’s Canadian dealers will market and sell these new apparatus on behalf of MAXIMETAL to fire and emergency departments across all provinces.

VERIDIAN FIRE PROTECTIVE GEAR has announced that Dan Tharan has joined the company as northwest regional sales manager in support of its growing regional and national account base.

GLOBE, DUPONT PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES (DUPONT), and the NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL (NVFC) announced the final recipients in the 2015 Globe Gear Giveaway. The Friendship (IN) Volunteer Fire Department and the Rockaway Point (NY) Fire Department were each awarded four sets of new Globe turnout gear. Through this gear donation, the Friendship Volunteer Fire Department will be able to better protect its new and existing members with complete, fitted, compliant gear. The new turnout gear the Rockaway Point Fire Department receives will enable it to replace some of its outdated gear, keeping its members safer and allowing funds to be saved for other needs.

MIDWEST FIRE EQUIPMENT & REPAIR COMPANY (Midwest Fire), an SBA-certified woman-owned small business (WOSB), announced its partnership with the Minnesota State Fire Chiefs Association (MSFCA) to honor Assistant Chief Tate Mills of the Albertville (MN) Fire Department as the 2015 Fire Officer of the Year for departments covering an area with a population of fewer than 10,000. As part of the sponsorship, Midwest Fire provided funds toward Mills’s monetary stipend for leadership training.

Mills has been a member of the Albertville Fire Department for 18 years. For eight years, he was the paid-on-call fire chief for the city of Albertville while also working a full-time job from which he took every other Friday off to dedicate his time to the needs of the Albertville Fire Department. Sarah Atchison, owner and CEO of Midwest Fire, says, “It was gratifying to attend the awards banquet at the conference and meet Chief Mills. [He] was a very deserving candidate, and we look forward to seeing how he continues to grow in his career and inspire others. We hope this award helps him continue to develop his ambition.”

W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, Inc., recently announced an enhancement of the warranty program for its line of moisture barriers and liner systems. This comprehensive program is aligned with the needs of fire departments as they continue to adopt the requirements of NFPA 1851, Standard on Selection, Care, and Maintenance of Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting (2014 ed.). Gore’s new warranty program covers materials and labor performed by participating verified Independent Service Providers (ISPs) and garment manufacturers. The warranty time and specific materials vary depending on the product. In addition to lengthening the warranty on these products, Gore is also extending the warranties retroactively for all of its moisture barriers in the market.

UNITED PLASTIC FABRICATING, Inc. (UPF) has launched its new Web site, located at www.unitedpla

The Ochopee Fire Control and Rescue District in Collier County, Florida, counts among its protection area a very long stretch of U.S. Interstate 41 running from Florida state Route 29 to the Dade County line.

It also serves remote parts of southern Collier County, including Interstate 75 to the Broward County line. A survey of I-75 found that 70 percent of the accidents on it occurred on a 30-mile stretch, so the district wanted to station a heavy rescue with fire suppression capability and a separate patient module at a new station nearby to handle whatever I-75 might throw at it.

1 E-ONE built this heavy rescue for the Ochopee (FL) Fire Control and Rescue District with rescue, fire suppression, and patient-care capabilities so the unit could be a self-sufficient vehicle when working on Interstate 75. (Photo courtesy of Hall-Mark Fire Apparatus.)

Hall-Mark Fire Apparatus had sold a number of vehicles to the district in the past and was able to book the order from the district for a new E-ONE heavy rescue, says Steve Kern, Hall-Mark sales representative. “The chief’s goal at the time had a couple of different elements to it,” Kern says. “When out on the Interstate, they often had to wait a while for an ambulance response, so they wanted a separate patient area to get a patient out of the elements but not for transport. And because there’s no water out on the Interstate, they wanted a pump, water tank, and foam on the rescue to handle fire suppression when needed.”

2 The Ochopee (FL) Fire Control and Rescue District heavy rescue has a patient module behind the cab that is accessed through a door on the officer side of the vehicle. (Photo courtesy of Hall-Mark Fire Apparatus.)

Alan McLaughlin, Ochopee’s chief, says that after considering the kinds of traffic that comes down I-75, he knew the district would need a pump, water, and foam on the truck to complement its rescue tools. “And in terms of injured people, the closest ambulance is 35 miles away,” McLaughlin points out. “In the summer, it rains every day, and it’s difficult when we have patients on the road in the rain. Plus, at night, the mosquitoes are horrendous.”

Patient Module

McLaughlin says Ochopee’s truck committee first talked with E-ONE and Hall-Mark about making a patient compartment out of the back portion of the cab but ultimately decided on a separate patient box, isolated from the crew’s cab and accessible through a door on the officer’s side of the truck. “The patient module has all of the equipment that you’d find in an ambulance patient box,” he notes. “It’s fully air-conditioned, has an oxygen unit, and a full set of advanced life support (ALS) equipment that paramedics can use while waiting for an ambulance or helicopter to arrive to transport the patient.”

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