SDD immediately set up the Phoenix G2’s base configuration and hardware in one fire station. Then, in one week’s time, USDD’s third-party installation team installed four of the nine stations. By the fifth week, the entire implementation was complete.
Technology from Plymovent has proven its worth to the North Tonawanda Fire Department. All stations have since installed the code-compliant, Plymovent Magnetic Grabber® system to improve fire station air quality and reduce cancer-causing airborne toxins, creating a healthier work environment for all.
After fire departments have a new fire station built or an older station renovated, they are faced with the issue of furnishing it to make it a usable place where firefighters live and work.
The apparatus bay is the only space that is a common denominator of fire stations across the globe.
Monitoring for integrity involves installing automatic systems that detect faults and failures and send visual and audible indications to appropriate personnel.
It is unique in its design that is fashioned like the wing of an aircraft, and it functions as the station for airport aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) response as well as municipal fire protection.
With more than four decades of designing more than 350 public safety facilities, our firm has witnessed numerous, common pitfalls encountered by organizations planning, designing, and constructing fire stations.
When fire chiefs and safety officers think of firefighter safety, they don’t often consider it in relation to their fire stations’ alerting systems.
Our department purchased special extractors and dryers for us to wash our gear. At my station, we had developed a “buddy” system for washing our gear.
The ceremony was conducted at the firefighters’ memorial located outside the main entrance to Fire Central, also home to a five-bay station, in downtown Tucson.