Technology used by Fire Services - Find a freedom of information request

1. Do your Fire fighters when wearing SCBA use an ATEX Digital radio to communicate by voice to BA Control?

2. Do your Fire fighters ever use non ATEX radios when wearing and operating SCBA?

3. Are Fire fighters when wearing SCBA issued one radio each or is it one radio per BA team (team of two Fire fighters').

4. Does your FRS make use of cable wire communications system?

5. Does your FRS have SCBA Telemetry technology available?

6. If yes to question 4, do you make use of the telemetry functionality during incidents?

7. Does your FRS have the means of tracking and locating Fire fighters positional location whilst Fire fighters are wearing SCBA within buildings?

8. Does your FRS BA Teams make use of Thermal Imaging Cameras (TIC) during an incident?

9. If YES to question 7, does the TIC provide the capability to transmit live imagery to BA Control or the Incident Commander?

10. Does your FRS have Fire fighter wearable means of monitoring heat stress and alerting? 

11. Does your FRS make use of body or helmet worn video cameras at the Incident?

12. If YES to question 11, are the camera worn by Incident Commanders or Fire fighters or both.

13. Does your FRS have the means of transmitting live images captured by body or helmet worn cameras to the Incident Command Unit or Command and Control Centre.

14. Does your FRS Operational Assurance/Safety Officers capture and record incident information via body or helmet worn cameras.

15. Does your FRS Operational Assurance/Safety Officers capture and record incident information via tablet software systems.

16. Does your FRS have its own drone technology capability?

17. Does your FRS make use of Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV) systems?

18. If YES to question 17, what year were PPV systems introduced.

19. Does your FRS make use of Water Misting Lancing Systems?

20. If YES to questions 19, what year were Water Misting Systems introduced. 

1. No

2. Yes

3. One radio each

4. No

5. No

6. N/A

7. No

8. Yes

9. No

10. No

11. No

12. N/A

13. No

14. No

15. No

16. No

17. Yes

18. 2015

19. No

20. N/A