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Personal LED Flashlight STREAMLIGHT INC. has introduced The LOGO keychain light, a personal LED flashlight with four lighting modes and a convenient auto-off feature that conserves battery life. The light features a five-millimeter LED that is impervious to shock and provides a 100,000-hour...

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Fire Technology: Android to the Rescue

The Fire Service Technology article in the March issue of Firehouse ® reported specifically about devices that use the Apple iOS operating system, such as iPhones and iPads. This article focuses on smartphones and tablets for the Android operating...

Article • May 1st, 2013
Thermal Imaging: Radiant, Conducted, Convected: Why Does It Matter?

I’ve got some disappointing news to share. It will be tough to hear, but I don’t know any other way to convey it other than to just come right out and tell you: Your thermal imager isn’t very smart. In fact, it is rather dumb. A thermal imager...

Article • May 1st, 2013
Adapting New Technology In Rural Firefighting Operations

Virtually every small-community fire department can benefit from implementing a few of the many technological innovations available in the fire industry today. The choices, for example, can range from using online firefighter training programs all the...

Article • May 1st, 2013
New Products 5/13

Personal LED Flashlight STREAMLIGHT INC. has introduced The LOGO keychain light, a personal LED flashlight with four lighting modes and a convenient auto-off feature that conserves battery life. The light features a five-millimeter LED that is...

Article • May 1st, 2013
Thermal Imaging: How Thermal Imaging Helps The Incident Commander

T he job of an incident commander can be trying. Coordinating a scene full of firefighters, apparatus and other resources, often from multiple agencies, while performing a multitude of tasks in an environment where those decisions can make the...

Article • April 1st, 2013
Product Showcase 4/13

Training Props BullEx BullEx Training Structures and Centers utilize proven technology and years of experience to make each department’s training objectives a reality. The Training Structures and Centers product line includes portable...

Article • April 1st, 2013
Fire Technology: iPads, iPhones, Apps And the Fire Service

The convergence of technology, connectivity and applications (apps) has created an environment for the advancement of many features and functions that to date have been out of reach to the fire service due to cost, technology limitations and the lack...

Article • March 1st, 2013
Thermal Imaging: NFPA 1801-Compliant Thermal Imagers

T echnology has permeated nearly every aspect of our lives, from shopping to listening to music to driving. Google now has a completely driverless vehicle that has logged more than 500,000 miles on public roads at speeds as high as 75 mph without an...

Article • March 1st, 2013
Product Showcase 2/13

Avon Protection The nVision Thermal Imager from Avon Protection utilizes the latest technology advancements in thermal imaging sensors, providing greater thermal sensitivity, a higher detector saturation point, a wider operating temperature range...

Article • February 1st, 2013
New Products 2/13

Firefighter Flashlights STREAMLIGHT INC. has introduced two intrinsically safe, alkaline battery-powered flashlights, the 3AA ProPolymer HAZ-LO and the 3C ProPolymer HAZ-LO. Both lights, which feature brighter C4 LED technology, are suitable for use...

Article • February 1st, 2013
Higher Education: Universities Aid Soaring Technology For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

As the fast-moving wildfire advances toward a rocky ridge entangled in bone-dry underbrush, a copse of Ponderosa Pine and a dozen homes, the incident commander looks to his operations chief and gives the order, “Launch Little Bird 1, and give me an...

Article • January 11th, 2013
Thermal Imaging: "Taking It To the Streets"

As thermal imaging becomes more mainstream in the fire service, the potential uses of the technology expands on a daily basis. Many firefighters think of a thermal imager as a “firefighting tool,” and immediately relegate its use to those...

Article • January 7th, 2013
Emergency Communications: 5 Events Shaping the Future Of Fire Service Communications

According to some, it was predicted that 2012 would see the end of civilization. That was not to be, but one truism about last year that cannot be denied is that events that occurred in 2012 will shape the future of fire service communications...

Article • January 3rd, 2013
The Station Uniform Shirt

Firefighters wear structural turnout gear and other components of personal protective equipment (PPE) to provide protection against multiple hazards, most notably thermal injury. The use of such protection is absolutely necessary, but it also imposes...

Article • January 1st, 2013
The Five Most Common Myths Of Thermal Imaging

Errant information related to thermal imaging seems to permeate the fire service. I am not sure what causes this, but it seems like several topics simply will not die and keep getting reintroduced. What bothers me most is that, often times, these...

Article • January 1st, 2013

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