Today, AlertID, which has proven to help enhance public safety and reduce crime, introduced its new comprehensive suite of mobile and online applications and services that redefine the way in which critical public safety information is communicated and shared among public safety officials and the citizens that they protect. AlertID is a free service for end users and public safety officials.

AlertID is the first system of its kind that delivers important public safety alerts, advisories, and interactive features to families through online services, emails, texts and on mobile and tablet applications.

Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has once again awarded Ferrara Fire Apparatus with the LWCC Safest 70 Award.

Axell Wireless, the worldwide leader in public safety coverage solutions, today announced enhancements to its CSR438 -- the market leading digital band selective TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) repeater.

Natural gas leaks and explosions are growing problems across the country, James Kutz writes, and firefighters need to be on alert when responding to "nuisance" calls involving natural gas leaks.

Jurors found a fire apparatus manufacturer and the Kilgore (TX) Fire Department equally at fault in the 2009 training deaths of two firefighters.

A 6-year-old Alabama child received severe burns after coming into contact with a transformer in a public sports complex late last month.

During a large scale teambuilding session on March 24th 2012, the Mechelen F&R Service and other emergency response services within the safety region of Rivierenland (Belgium) used the virtual RescueSim platform for their incident response training.

The Microtherm heat stress monitor displays in real-time the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index, the internationally recognized method of calculating heat stress.

The City of Minneapolis has deployed 12 projectiondesign F32 DLP projectors as the main display source in the Analyst Room and F22 series projectors in the Incident Command Room of its Emergency Operations Training Facility.

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the availability of the SAP Situation Awareness rapid-deployment solution for public sector with SAP HANA.

MIPT (Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism) and the Kansas State Highway Patrol have partnered to provide InCOP training to the agencies 800 personnel and surrounding departments.

A recent online article took a close look at safety issues in the 2007 Deutsche Bank fire in Lower Manhattan that killed two Fire Department of New York (FDNY) firefighters.

Ed Hadfield explains why the Crossfit model is ideal for evaluating firefighter physical fitness.

The IAFC is introducing a new, free hazardous materials (hazmat) training tool, the Electronic Learning Community (ELC).

In an advisory bulletin issued today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration reminded gas pipeline facilities to preserve and verify records related to maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) and informed hazardous liquid operators that they should adhere to the same standards for maximum operating pressure (MOP).

Between 1999 and 2004 an average of 49 bus and coach fires were reported each year in Norway, and 122 per year in Sweden. However, it can be assumed that the actual number of fires is considerably higher than this, as a large number of fires are not reported.