2019 – Asia Pacific Fire E-news Archive

Australian Fire Service Medal (AFSM)

Asia Pacific Fire Congratulates to the 29 members of the Australian fire service on being…

In Australia, Tasmania Faces Continuous Fire Across the State

While the north of Australia is being flooded the Southern Island of Tasmania is raked…

INTERSCHUTZ 2020: The Future Is Connectivity

Digitization and connectivity are changing many aspects of our lives. Which is why INTERSCHUTZ 2020…

Advanced Selected To Protect Premier Shopping Destination In Mumbai

Industry-leading fire panels from global systems leader, Advanced, have been installed in one of India’s…

TFT Releases SHO-FLOW® 1 Flow Meter Series

TFT’s SHO-FLOW® 1 Flow Meter series provides accurate, real-time information for use in testing, training…

Vigilant® T-Gen2 Grade 2 Is Part Of A New Range Of Sophisticated Emergency Warning Systems For Australia & New Zealand.

T-Gen2 is powerful, feature packed, yet easily configured to suit almost any installation requirement. Johnson…

Get Hands On With Fire Australia 2019

The Fire Australia Conference and Tradeshow is returning to Melbourne on 14-16 May 2019, with…

Ear protection brackets allow the user to customise their hearing protection as needed.
Pacific Helmets – World leader in the design and manufacture of firefighting helmets

Pacific Helmets NZ Ltd is a world leader in the design and manufacture of structural…

PT Rescue and Emergency One (UK) – Where innovation, quality and service matters!

Over its 29-year history, Emergency One (UK) Limited (E1) have grown from a workforce of…

Quik CAFS module – Designed and engineered by Quik Corp.
Quik CAFS – One pump – three outputs. All at once. Water, air and foam.

The next generation CAFS solution The use of Compressed Air Foam (CAFS) is a great…

Fire danger ratings, in turn, emergency warnings are being improved through implementation of research findings.
Research making a difference

Five years into its tenure, the research of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC is…

Fire Boss aircraft one of the first fixed wing aircraft to drop water enhancer BLAZETAMER380, an elastomer designed to increase the efficiency of water for direct Class A Fire Suppression.
Fire suppressant – NEXTGEN water enhancer innovation

Fire suppressants have been around since the first time that water was used to put…

Fire Growth in the building when Edge of Slab Firestop system was not installed.
Hilti studies façade fires in real life conditions in partnership with UL

With increasing urbanization and changing architectural trends add innumerable buildings and skyscrapers with glass facades…

Immersive visuals are used for multi-aircraft operations and advanced training scenarios with ground personnel.
Aerial firefighting training goes virtual

With the global threat of bushfires increasing, firefighting agencies need to be able to act…

Ram head with laser pointer to mark the exact spot where it will touch the construction.
Cross ramming – The rarely practiced art

You probably all remember that one piece of equipment that you weren’t confident with in…

FTS Portable Automated Weather Station deployed in Whyte River.
The importance of a dedicated fire weather network – Part 1

Every year a vast majority of 30–46 million km2 of the global land surface burn…

Life gets back to normal.
Responses to the Lombok Earthquake, 2018 – Rapid assessment study

The recent earthquake that occurred in Lombok in August, 2018, presented an opportunity to study…

Yeppoon Category 5, $6.4 mil state of the art regional Local Disaster Coordination Centre opened in May 2018.
The next generation of emergency managers – what will they look like?

The shape of emergency management has changed significantly over the past two decades. However, have…

ATC Launches The Reach and Rescue Telescopic Rescue Pole Adapter For The FL360 Spherical Vision Camera

Agility Technologies is excited to announce the launch of the Reach and Rescue Long Reach…

Afghanistan Gold Mine Disaster Kills 40

At least 40 workers died, and ten others were injured when a gold mine caved…

Another Rebirth as Cyclone Penny Looks Set to Make it’s Third Visit

Cyclone Penny is currently sitting off the northeast coast of Australia near Cooktown as a…