FireVu has announced that its Visual Smoke and Flame Detection System has obtained FM Approval, an internationally recognised testing standard. This latest achievement follows more than 10 years of success for FireVu, an award-winning solution which provides early fire detection…
Major International Conference in Dublin on ‘Sustainable Fire Engineering’
Lessons of 9/11 in New York still not learned. The Fire Safety Lessons of 9/11 in New York City have still not been learned, and people’s lives are in danger even in the newest buildings around the world. This problematic…
Abu Dhabi Hosts 2015 Gulf Fire Tech Summit
This inaugural Gulf event is taking place on 31st August and 1st of September, at the Park Hyatt Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab, Emirates. Its aim to relate to the continuous economic development that has taken place in the last…
Continuing Surge in Middle East New Rail Projects
When the £4.5 billion Dubai Metro was opened in 2009, it was the world’s most integrated and technologically advanced urban and the largest automated driver-less train system. Initally operating with 70 kilometres of running track and 47 stations, nine of…
Dubai Police Safety Campaign Seizes 4,658 Fireworks
Dubai Police has recently concluded an awareness campaign about the dangers of fireworks. Brigadier Abdullah Ali Al Gaithi, Director of the Protective Security and Emergency Department at Dubai Police, has reported that there were 23 cases, in which 4,658 firecrackers…
Sky-Futures Launch Specialist Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Training Academy for the Emergency Services
Sky-Futures, the global Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) inspection specialists for the Oil and Gas industry, have launched the new Sky-Futures Training Academy offering UAV training to the Rescue, Response and Resilience sector. In partnership with Capita, the Sky-Futures Training Academy…
FlareAlert introduces Emergency LED Beacon Kits
Designed for professional firefighters, law enforcement, and military, as well as personal emergency use. Unlike incendiary strike flares, FlareAlert LED Beacons are personally and environmentally safe to use. No more risk of inhaling toxic fumes, starting brush fires, igniting spilled…
ME Homeland Security Market Will See a Growth rate that is three times the Global Average
According to a recent Frost and Sullivan report, the Middle East’s homeland security market will see a compound annual growth rate that is three times the global average, and it is driven primarily by economic diversification and massive scale-up in…
New Video shows how Mobile Monitoring makes Emergency Light Testing Easier
http://www.luxintelligent.com/media/1876881/Lux_Animation_FINAL.webm Advanced’s Lux Intelligent system also saves users time and money A new video from global fire systems business Advanced shows how cloud monitoring now makes it easy to manage its Lux Intelligent emergency light testing system from a phone,…
The Importance of Reducing False Fire Alarms
Michala Ford, Marketing Manager of Safety Technology International (Europe) Ltd The problem caused by false fire alarms… Every false fire alarm is costly, disruptive and detrimental to safety. Each year businesses and public services in the UK have nearly a…
Tyco Fire Protection Products re-launches its VdS iFLOW Technology
Tyco Fire Protection Products has re-launched its VdS iFLOW technology fire suppression system globally. A comprehensive set of sales tools and an interactive video has been introduced to showcase the iFLOW technology advantages. The iFLOW technology is a clean-agent extinguishing…
Eaton’s Fulleon LX Range of EN 54-23 certified visual alarm devices is the low current solution to the latest European fire standard
Innovation through optical and LED technology The market for Beacons is changing, within Europe the introduction of EN54-23 has required the development of a new range of powerful beacons able to deliver a higher light output to a given area…
Impulse Trigger System Nozzle from TFT
TFT’s new Impulse Trigger System is a trigger valve actuation system that allows firefighters to open and close the valve by simply pressing a trigger. What once took three hands is now a two hand operation. Another TFT innovation.
The Stealth Killer of First Responders Part 1
Flawed situational awareness is one of the leading contributing factors in first responder near-miss and casualty events. Complicating this problem is that most first responders know very little about what situational awareness is, how they develop it, how they lose…
Scott Safety Thermal Imaging Cameras
Since the introduction of thermal imaging technology to the fire services, Scott Safety has been at the forefront of innovation providing advanced, fire-ground proven thermal cameras to first responders for use in search and rescue, overhaul operations and hot spot…