APF Magazine E-Newswire Archive

Command Light – The all-new Helios tower line-up

In an era of distracted drivers and demanding scenes, firefighters face many obstacles, but seeing…

ESKA – Glove professionals from Austria

For 108 years the Austrian family business ESKA has specialized in the development and manufacturing…

Knowledge-sharing agreement to boost property resilience against fire

FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, and the Indonesian Fire &…

2019/20: Australia’s worst fire season on record

Australia has just been through its worst fire season with respect to areas burnt and…

Natural hazards: the importance of wind research

Extreme wind hazards have a substantial societal and environmental impact on countries. Due to the…

Figure 1: Polystyrene (PS) a thermoplastic with very poor reaction to fire, image displays poor unsafe site management.
Flammable cladding in China: A site study 2020

Despite recent tragedies throughout the world, some countries, even in 2020, continue to use unsafe,…

Left–right: Dianne Moore (Aircraft Officer), Jo Thompson (Airbase Manager), Rhianna Burns (Air Observer), Sandra Robinson (Aircraft Officer), Amy Miller (Pilot), Ruby Manson (Photographer), Pip Younes (Media Advisor) and Lydia Kennedy (Journalist). Absent from photo but assisting in the training: Michelle Anstee (Aircraft Officer) and Lucy Darcy (Airbase support – Airbase Manager mentoree).
Women in aviation #SoCanShe

The disparity in gender within the aviation sector tells its own story. In Victoria’s emergency…

High-resoltion LCD multi-touch display for easily adjusting settings such as units to be alerted.
Next-Gen fire station alerting

Radical new designs in fire station alerting technology are helping to save lives and property.…

How to buy emergency scene lighting

What you can’t see can hurt you! Never is that statement truer than when firefighters…

The Watercube is the award winning swimming centre for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
22 years of performance-based fire engineering: where did it get us?

In 1997 Australia adopted a performance-based building code (BCA96). It came about from decades of…

Comparison of AFFF v Fluorine Free Foam extinguishment on same n-heptane pool fire, US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) testing, American Chemical Society, March 2016.
Might some current small-scale approval fire tests be dangerously misleading us?

We take it for granted that many small-scale approval tests use heptane as a substitute…

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service attend car fire.
In safe hands

Regulations and standards keep firefighters safe and provide reassurance that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is…

Standards Australia has partnered with the Australian Commonwealth government to make key bushfire standard accessible.
The resilience to rebuild

The year started for many Australians in an unimaginable and devastating way; the bushfire crisis…

The ability to make accurate assessments of fire incidents ensures safety of personnel.
Trusting reliable rugged solutions in times of emergency

The fire-services industry has recently evolved with the emergence of new technologies such as software…

NSW Rural Fire Service briefing on 12 November 2020 with Interstate Liaison Unit and National Resource Sharing Centre Deployment Manager in attendance.
National support to sustain local effort

Sitting in NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Headquarters and observing a vast operations centre with…

Hangar with small aircraft.
Flame detection through the use of 3D mapping to aircraft hangars

In this first of a two-part article, William Pittman, PhD discusses the challenges posed by…

Call for Indigenous burning program used on remote cattle station to be adopted elsewhere

The Southern Gulf Natural Resource Management Group (NRM) in outback Queensland is calling for an…

Work continues on developing the Taichung Power Plant to ensure it meets the expanding energy requirements of Taiwan
LINESENSE Solution for Taiwan’s Largest Power Plant

Some 24,000 metres of Linear Heat Detection (LHD) cable from Linesense have been supplied to…

Another smart lighting solution from Adaro

Adaro Tecnología S.A. is a Spanish company that has been developing innovative, intrinsically safe lighting…

Hazmat 2020 – a sneak preview

Our annual Hazmat conference, now in its 13th year, is returning to the Crowne Plaza,…

Covid 19: Information by Deutsche Messe

According to the current assessment of the authorities, there is no risk to events on…

Indonesian floods kill five

Five people were killed, three more are missing and thousands are unable to return to…