Interspiro, the renowned designer and manufacturer of SCBA equipment, has recently released a new breathing…
Issue 61 – April 2017
Training is the key to everything in emergency services
Regular readers will have noticed that the last two issues of Asia Pacific Fire have…
Tornatech – UL Listed and FM Approved Electric and Diesel Fire Pump Controllers
World Class Products and Customer Service Tornatech specializes in the conception and manufacturing of fire…
Pacific F15 Structural Fire Helmet – Combining 34 years of Kevlar® heritage with cutting-edge design and technology
The new Pacific F15 Structural Fire Helmet from Pacific Helmets combines the 34 year heritage…
Building emergency operations and big data
Big data is a concept of using data to facilitate the process of smarter decisions…
Research helps fire protection in Bangladesh
Research into how Australian children are involved in bushfire preparations around the home is being…
LITH-EX Fire Extinguishers – A portable fire extinguisher designed for Lithium battery fires
The news is filled with ever more examples of fires caused by Lithium batteries, from…
Queensland’s ‘management of firefighting foam’ policy – Part 2
Last issue, Part 1 of this article covered a range of issues with Queensland’s (QLD)…
Standards for Fire Services and the emergency management community
Standards Australia is the nation’s peak non-government, not-for-profit organisation for developing standards in Australia. Our…
How much do we invest in prescribed burning?
In the last few decades, the frequency of large, intense wildfires has increased in many…
Tatra delivers off-road
Three critical areas of focus appear to be uppermost in the minds of fire and…
Fire or fake? Reducing the risk of false alarms
The minimisation of false and unwanted alarms is a key challenge that continues to plague…
Extinguishing arson – myth vs methodology
Many community groups, schools, forestry managers and others whose properties are frequent targets of arson…
An overview of the Tehran Fire Department
With the recent disaster in Tehran where 16 firefighters were killed in the line of…
Wildfire prediction: Systems for the future
Wildfires are dangerous and incredibly destructive events – difficult to fight and difficult to predict.…
Using AIIMS for a welfare response
During emergency operations, Australian Red Cross, like many emergency management agencies, uses the Australasian Inter-Service…
A perspective on high rise building fires involving the façade
The recent fire that occurred on the 9th November 2016 involving the Neo-Soho project in…
Can graph theory techniques help with emergency response
To understand how components of our built environment and society will fare during a disaster,…
Qualifications and procedures for fire investigation
Some might say that investigating fire origin and cause is an “Art”, but it is…
Escape my house – a virtual reality experience
Faced with a level of public complacency, the New Zealand Fire Service wanted to take…
Pac Fire New Zealand Ltd – Introducing premium ranges of safety products to the New Zealand market
For over 35 years Pacific Safety International Ltd (PSI), owned and operated by the Bennett…
Good governance not always the most comfortable road
As with any peak body, Fire Protection Association Australia (FPA Australia) which is Australia’s peak…