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Table of Contents Up to Standard Deep Resources 6 Days Remain to Nominate an EVT of the Year Vehicle-Collision Near-Misses Provide Learning Opportunities Pierce Introduces Changeable Response Unit Spartan CFO to Retire Recent Apparatus Deliveries Who is Qualified to Work on Apparatus? Shop Truck Photos Wanted Find More Content Online To read about our privacy policy concerning your email address, click here ADVERTISEMENT The New EZ Truck Builder by Rosenbauer Want to get a jump-start on the design of your new apparatus? Rosenbauer can help. Rosenbauer debuted its new EZ Truck Builder at FDIC this past April and it has been a hit ever since! Visit www.rosenbaueramerica.com or simply click HERE to start building your new apparatus today. Website Request More Info Editorial By Janet Wilmoth, Editorial Director In 1993, I went to Washington, D.C., to write an article about the General Services Administration’s KKK ambulance standard. The interview ended up being very stilted, and a friend later told me that ambulances were the stepchildren of the fire service. Ambulances are emergency vehicles — and emergency vehicle technicians maintain and repair them — yet they don’t fall under NFPA vehicles standards. Now, after years of rumors and talk, the NFPA has begun the process to develop a standard for ambulances. Click Here for More ... ADVERTISEMENT 
"How to select a generator for fire and rescue” covers basic considerations in choosing auxiliary power for fire and rescue. This FREE guide provides recommendations for determining power requirements and sources specifically for command centers, pumper trucks and other fire and rescue vehicles and applications. Available from Cummins Onan. Website Request More Info Feature Deep Resources By Keith Purdy 
Many fire departments, rescue squads and emergency service responders are providing many more specialized services, i.e., deep resources, than a few years ago. Consequently, many modern fire, rescue and hazmat teams are adding highly specialized equipment to their response inventories. Click Here for More ... EVT of the Year 6 Days Remain to Nominate an EVT of the Year The award will be given to one emergency vehicle technician who has made an outstanding effort to promote a high standard of excellence in quality and safety in emergency vehicles. The deadline is June 30. Click Here for More ... ADVERTISEMENT 
In Service Worldwide UPF, the innovative leader that introduced the Poly-Tank® also manufactures quality foam trailers that are designed to customer's specifications to meet the fire protection community's need for a cost effective method of handling, storing and delivering bulk foam supplies as well as proportioning and applying it. Website Request More Info Special Report Vehicle-Collision Near-Misses Provide Learning Opportunities By John Tippett High-profile collisions have become the bases for department and company drills. A search of the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System in the vehicle-event category provides more than 400 occurrences for departments from all points in the industry. Users can focus on incidents that occurred in departments that have like profiles (e.g., paid municipal or combination, mostly volunteer). This provides for a "just like us" review approach that is instrumental in delivering a message with immediate relativity. Click Here for More ... Apparatus News Pierce Introduces Changeable Response Unit Pierce Manufacturing has introduced its Changeable Response Unit, which allows fire and rescue departments to customize a single pickup truck to do the work of several specialty vehicles through an interchangeable system of dedicated modules. These modules fit into the cargo area and can be easily swapped out for one another. Click Here for More ... Spartan CFO to Retire James Knapp, Spartan Motors' senior vice president, chief financial officer, chief compliance officer and treasurer, will be retiring from the company within the next few months. Click Here for More ... New Deliveries Recent Apparatus Deliveries  Whenever a department writes the specifications for a new apparatus, part of the process should be to look at apparatus being delivered to other departments around the country. Click Here for More ... ADVERTISEMENT 
The outbreak of a new strain of influenza, known as H1N1 or swine flu, has led to many questions. So the Fire Chief staff spoke to Daniel Kaniewski, deputy director of George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute and former White House staffer under the Bush Administration. He discussed how pandemics adversely affect our nation’s first-responders, specifically firefighters, and hinder homeland security operations. Listen now. People Who is Qualified to Work on Apparatus? By Ben Brown As the NFPA standards change and the need to prove technician qualification becomes more evident, it is increasingly important to back up your technicians with paperwork. But in discussions with other agencies and technicians, I have run across a few misconceptions. Click Here for More ... Shop News Shop Truck Photos Wanted If you are proud of your department's mechanic truck, fuel truck, tire truck, wrecker or other maintenance-related vehicle, we'd like to feature it in a monthly issue of In Service Online. Click Here for More ... Visit Us on the Web Find More Content Online Find more content at FireChief.com, Facebook and Twitter |
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