Posts Tagged: Gps
Morning Lineup – April 14
Where are we?
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Video: MFRI & TRX Systems demonstrate tracking system.
Tracking system attempts to go where GPS can't.
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GIS for EMS
Both acronyms (GIS and EMS) represent not just technologies, but fields of study and service that have very old roots even though each can trace their modern form to research starting in the 1960s. Both have witnessed explosive growth and application f…
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The Cut-Through
A Wagon Driver secret revealed.
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Dynamic System Status Management
System Status Management (SSM) is the fluid deployment of ambulances based on the hour-of-the-day and day-of-the-week in order to match supply, defined as Unit Hours of Utilization (UHU), with expected demand, expressed as calls for service, in the attem…
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Darwin Visits Washington State
THREE YOUNG WOMEN SAFELY ESCAPED from a sinking luxury-SUV Wednesday morning after they blindly followed the car's GPS guidance into a river.
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New Device Lets You Turn Your Cellphone Into A Satellite Communicator!
[fblike]Another gadget from CES that may be of interest to those in the emergency services is the inexpensive SPOT Communicator. The little device connects via Bluetooth to your smartphone and allows you to call for help, update Facebook and Twitter, sen…
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Driving While GPS’ing Doesn’t Work Either
A YOUNG MAN DRIVING A CAR WITH TWO OTHER passengers in Kansas City, Missouri, somehow didn't see Big Red at 3:30 Sunday morning.
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GPS Alert
DESPITE GPS SYSTEMS' LONG RECORD OF LEADING mind-numbed motorists over the edges of cliffs and onto dead-end roads....
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Electronic Monitoring Case: Connecticut
A very interesting case was decided on January 5, 2010 involving the Bridgeport, Connecticut Fire Department. In May of 2007, the city acquired new vehicles for city fire inspectors, and installed GPS devices in order to electronically monitor the moveme…
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Beaufort Fire Given New Assignment
There are many reasons why the fire service has such a strong connection to the law, but a recent story out of South Carolina brought that connection home to me once again in a way I had not expected. In Beaufort, they have been having a difficult time e…
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Identity Theft: Jury Duty Scam
If you are like me, you are tired of the internet hoax emails claiming such rubbish as "in 1987 Oliver North testified before Congress that Osama bin Laden was the most evil person alive”, or that "cut flowers can remove oxygen f…
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LA County Fire Department Sex Harassment Claims Close to Settlement
The Los Angeles Daily News reported on Monday, that the Los Angeles County Claims Board was meeting to consider settling two Los Angeles County Fire Department lawsuits arising out of sexual harassment that occurred in 2003. Reportedly, Mary Villegas, wh…
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Families Sue Building Owners for Fire Deaths
The families of three young women killed in a fire at the Willows of Coventry apartment complex in Fort Wayne, Indiana on January 23, 2009, are now suing the owners of the property, alleging they failed to provide a reasonably safe place to live. The thr…
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Ready… Fire… Aim
On December 23, 2009, a Superior Court Judge in New Jersey, dismissed internal administrative charges against three Atlantic City firefighters who were suspended in the aftermath of a sensationalized case, the likes of which brought in such headliners as…
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Sexual Harassment in Westbrook – The Story Continues
There has been another development in the decade long sexual
harassment battle in the Westbrook, Maine Fire Department, as two male firefighters
have contested disciplinary actions imposed against them. Lt. Donald Trafford and
Firefighter Matthew Lamonta…
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You Can’t Win Them All
A retired battalion chief from the Kansas City (Missouri)
Fire Department who won two previous Federal court cases for sexual
discrimination in 1999 (Kline I) and 2006 (Kline II), finally lost a case (Kline
III). On December 22, 2009, a Jackson County Ci…
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Cell Phone GPS Leads Rescue Effort
IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, A MAN WHO WAS using a storm drain for a shortcut got lost in the darkness and needed help.
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GPS + Internet = Boats Afloat
We can all play Titan of Industry and follow the merchant ships around the Seven Seas.
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