Fire Safety Management - Case Studies

Global safety equipment manufacturer, MSA Safety Incorporated has announced that it has executed a US$ 10 million contract to provide G1 self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and accessories to the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and Country Fire Authority (CFA) of Victoria, Australia, two of the country’s largest and most well-respected fire departments. For MSA Safety Incorporated, the contract represents the largest G1 SCBA order placed till date. The majority of the order is expec...

Sepura partners for the Spain region, Zenon Digital Radio and Adesal Telecom, have provided Onda City Council with new TETRA digital radios to supply their police force. Onda is a town in Valencia, eastern Spain with over 25,000 inhabitants to keep safe. The City Council wanted to facilitate and accelerate the work of the Local Police and improve their efficiency. In order to do this, the City Council purchased new Sepura digital radios. Providing Crime Prevention The move to digital has conn...

With 20 years of building emergency vehicles, 1st Attack Engineering of Waterloo has added water tankers to its lineup. The company built its first water tanker for the LaGrange Fire Department. LaGrange Fire Chief Dave Elick contacted Jeffrey Cook, president of 1st Attack Engineering, to build the tanker, the company said. LaGrange chose to use a 1999 International chassis for its tanker. The fire department took delivery of the tanker on February 22. The truck is equipped with a 2,400-gallon...

Great Bend, Kansas is home to a new pumper after the Great Bend Fire/EMS Department received the apparatus in mid-January, 2018. Built by premier fire apparatus manufacturer, Toyne, Inc., the pumper will assist in the firefighting efforts of the department, which serves 156 square miles of Baron County, in Kansas. Toyne pumper Toyne, Inc. built Great Bend's pumper on a Spartan Gladiator LFD 10-inch chassis Toyne, Inc. built Great Bend's pumper on a Spartan Gladiator LFD 10-inch chassis and is...

The Fire Risk Assessment infographic details the responsibilities of employers and building owners towards fire safety The Fire Risk Assessment Network have released a new infographic detailing the responsibilities of employers, building owners or occupiers with regards to fire safety at the workplace. The visually compelling, easy-to-understand infographic also includes information about general safety hazards, fire risk assessments and the law. It is of the utmost importan...

The Seeboard Offices in Worthing, UK have a busy telecommunications center managing the customer base for its UK operation. The communications equipment, associated data control equipment and the essential power and UPS equipment were protected from fire by five stand-alone Halon fire suppression systems. Unfortunately, Halon is damaging the ozone layer, adding to the global warming problem. In response, the European Community issued Regulation 2037/2000, which made the removal of Halon mandato...

Following the successful implementation of a Sepura TETRA network in the Mexican State of Guanajuato, the city of Leon has added another 757 Sepura radios to its existing stock of more than 800 terminals through Sepura's in-region partner Jomtel. Following a successful implementation in December 2017, the city of Leon has now achieved its goal of upgrading its communications capability for 2018. The Municipal Public Security Secretariat of the city of Leon purchased the radios to further enhanc...

A coal fired power station based in the UK decided to invest in NOx emission improvements to work towards compliance with the Industrial Emission Directive and allow a wide diet of fuel types including high volatile content coal. This new coal diet brought safety challenges for the mature power station and additional explosion protection measures were required for the mills and classifier processes. The power station owner executed a rapid, rigid and rather extensive tender process – requ...

A trip on the new AIDA Prima can be recommended by the Vienna Safety team! The installed CAT/MAK 12M46 DF engines as well the exhaust duct systems are protected, ‘state of the art’ with HOERBIGER Explosion Relief valves. A witness inspection on board was carried out by IEP Technologies’ colleague Dominik Suess, last year! AIDA prima is a new cruise ship built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the German cruise operator AIDA Cruises. MHI was awarded a contract to build t...

The primary fuel used in the cogeneration plant is coal, yet secondary biomass fuels like dried sewage sludge and wood are also employed. The materials, which are in part pulverized, are transported via four silos and one docking station to the boiler. The energy released during the combustion process is converted into electricity and district heat by way of a combined heat and power process. Stadtwerke Duisburg generates a total of 5.4 million kilowatt hours of electricity per day. Appropriat...

It was December 2, 2017 when a house filled with smoke in Guthrie. The two people inside were able to escape, thanks to smoke alarms installed just three months prior by the Oklahoma Assistive Technology Foundation (OkAT) AFG grant and Nick Mueller, OSU Fire Protection alumnus. Fire Safety Technology program Originally from Colorado, Mueller came to OSU after taking a concurrent enrolment fire science class during his senior year of high school. This sparked his interest in this field of study...

The Mission Fire Department located in Mission, Texas, has added more power to its firefighting efforts with the purchase of a pumper from Toyne, an Iowa-based, fire apparatus manufacturer. The new apparatus features technology that will allow the department to better respond to calls in the Mission area. Toyne built the pumper on a Spartan Metro Star MFD 10-inch chassis, powered by the force of a Cummins ISL 450 horsepower engine. A 3000 Allison EVS transmission drives the apparatus, which als...

ZIEGLER has announced delivery of the vehicles number 49 and 50 from the second purchase order of Hessen of about 50 emergency vehicles, LF 10 KatS. These vehicles were handed over to the fire brigades of Eschenburg/Eibelshausen and Herbstein (8th collective order by the county of Hesse), at the headquarters of the ZIEGLER Group, in Giengen, Germany. LF 10 KatS emergency vehicles Since 2012, ZIEGLER has already delivered 100 LF 10 KatS emergency vehicles in total to various fire brigades in th...