Darley—Rockwood Volunteer Fire Department, Manitowoc, WI, quick-attack pumper. Ford F-550 4-door 4×4 cab and chassis; Ford 6.7-liter diesel 330-hp engine; Darley PSMC 1,500-gpm pump; ProPoly 300-gallon polypropylene water tank and 25-gallon foam cell; FoamPro 2001 Class A foam system; AutoCAFS compressed air foam system; FireTech LED scene lights. Dealer: Troy Crothers, Darley Company, Chippewa Falls, WI.

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Exposure to home fires puts responders at risk from fire, collapse and health hazards. Each new home built without home fire sprinklers makes the community less safe for all.

With HFSC’s new virtual reality video you can help decision makers, stakeholders, and others in your community understand what you know all too well: today’s home fires are fast and deadly. 

With user-controlled 360-degree full-room views, they’ll experience actual house fires in virtual reality, feeling as if they are in the rooms. They’ll see flashover in the unsprinklered room in real time and watch a sprinkler automatically control the blaze in another. 

This new resource lets you share your knowledge with convincing evidence of the need to protect new housing stock with sprinklers. It can be watched with 3D glasses/headset for an immersive experience or in 2D on HFSC’s website.

Unsprinklered and Sprinklered 
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Sprinklered and Unsprinklered
(room with sprinkler first) 
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After the Fire Side X Side Comparison
(room with sprinkler first) 
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Installed home fire sprinklers support Community Risk Reduction. Our new virtual reality video is an effective resource to help you achieve your CRR goals.

The Derry Township (PA) Volunteer Fire Department Co.1 of Bradenville celebrated its new station with a dedication Saturday.

“On behalf of the members here at the Bradenville VFD, we would like to thank everyone that attended our building dedication today! It was a success, and we hope everybody is as excited about our new building as we are!

“Thank you again everybody! Stay safe!”

Belle Plaine man Dwayne Roach recently went on a tour of destruction and caught a series of charges in the process—his actions highlighted by the theft of a New Prague Fire Department Ford Excursion, reports bringmethenews.com.

Officials say he traveled in the stolen Excursion to the New Prague utilities building, which he entered and then messed around with a couple sets of controls, the report says. Officials say his button-pushing could have caused flooding.

The crime was only uncovered after police officials arrested Roach for a series of separate incidents on May 4, which include setting a barn on fire in Cedar Lake Township; driving a tractor found in said barn into a house on the same property and smashing an aquarium in the process; setting fire to the house; fleeing police while wearing a New Prague Fire Department jacket in a side-by-side; and resisting arrest.

Charges against the 59-year-old include 1st- and 2nd-degree arson, two counts of burglary, damage to property, vehicle theft, and drug possession, according to the report.

Police officials discovered the fire department apparatus at the scene of one of the fires, the report says. As he was being taken into custody, Roach admitted to stealing the truck. A bag of methamphetamines was found on Roach.