Massachusetts Fire Chief 2009

INDEX OF ADVERTISERS ABSORBENTS Green Stuff Absorbent/D2L Products, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 ALERT & NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS Apollo Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 AMBULANCES Minuteman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover Specialty Vehicles, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 ARCHITECTS Maguire Group Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 BATTERIES Minuteman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover COLLEGES Salem State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT GEOCommand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 CUSTOM-BUILT TANKERS Minuteman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover DECALS/GRAPHICS FirehouseDecals, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 DECONTAMINATION/STERILIZATION EQUIPMENT Air Cleaning Specialists of New England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 DETECTION ALARMS SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS Robotronics, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 EMERGENCY VEHICLES Specialty Vehicles, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 EMERGENCY VEHICLES & APPARATUS Greenwood Emergency Vehicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Minuteman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover Performance Advantage Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover Portland North Truck Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Quality Emergency Vehicles, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 EMS SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT Performance Advantage Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover EXHAUST EXTRACTION Murphy Specialty, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 EXTRICATION EQUIPMENT Glas-Master/Wehr Engineering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 28 FINANCIAL SERVICES All American Investment Group LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 FIRE APPARATUS SERVICES Harrington Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outside Back Cover Minuteman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover Performance Advantage Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover FIRE APPARATUS/FIRE EQUIPMENT American Fire Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 FIRE EXTINGUISHERS SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 FIRE HOSE & WATER SYSTEMS SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 FIRE PROTECTION & INSPECTION SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 FIRE RELATED ASSOCIATIONS National Fire Protection Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 National Fire Sprinkler Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 FIRE SAFE CONSTRUCTION - BALANCED DESIGN New England/New York Fire Safety Construction Advisory Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 FIRE SAFETY PRODUCTS Fire Tech & Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 13 Performance Advantage Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 FOAM & FOAM EQUIPMENT SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 FOAM NOZZLES/PROPORTIONERS Robwen, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 INFORMATION SYSTEMS GEOCommand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 INSURANCE Massachusetts Property Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 VFIS/SNE & Preston Insurance Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 LAUNDRY SYSTEMS Daniels Equipment Company, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 LIGHTING Airstar America, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 LIOTEC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 PUMPS Hale Products Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 RADIO ALARM REPORTING Signal Communications Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 RADIO COMMUNICATIONS All-Comm Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Radio Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 TAIT North America, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 REFLECTIVE MATERIALS FirehouseDecals Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 RESCUE EQUIPMENT Fire Tech & Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 13 Glas-Master/Wehr Engineering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 28 Rock-N-Rescue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Ryan Escape Bar Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 RESCUE VEHICLES Performance Advantage Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover Specialty Vehicles, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 SAFETY SUPPLIES Masterman’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 SELF-CONTAINED BREATHING APPARATUS SYSTEMS Performance Advantage Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover SMOKE ALARMS & DETECTORS SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 SOFTWARE Clayton I.D.S., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 GEOCommand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 TESTING & INSPECTION SERVICES Minuteman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 TOOL MOUNTING BRACKETS & SYSTEMS Performance Advantage Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover TRAINING Critical Knowledge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 TURNOUT GEAR Quaker Safety Products Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 TURNOUT GEAR - CLEANED, REPAIRED, REFURBISHED Elliott Enterprises, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 TWO-WAY RADIO COMMUNICATIONS All-Comm Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Specialized Radio Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 UNIFORMS & ACCESSORIES Majestic Fire Apparel Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 VEHICLE ACCESSORIES Hoseline, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 VENTILATION Murphy Specialty, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 WATER SYSTEMS SimplexGrinnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 WHAT HE SEES ON THESE SCREENS COULD SAVE A LIFE. When you’re calling the shots, you need to be sure you’re getting them right. A wrong decision can cost a life! GEOCommand ensures that you have the necessary facts at hand to make the right call. Which route does the preplan show to be the quickest? How reliable is the water supply? Any hazmats? Explosives or incendiaries? Where exactly? GEOCommand is a state-of-the-art emergency response information tool that provides instant in-vehicle intelligence to firefighters. Its Geographic Information System (GIS) foundation combines site preplanning, emergency handbooks and optional data radio integration to offer the most complete interoperable mobile information solution available to responding personnel. Whether en route or on the scene, any team member can retrieve and share the crucial data needed to plan the quickest, safest, most effective response. When your attack strategy has to be 100% right, you can depend on GEOCommand. It could save a life. GEOCommand is 100% compliant with the Department of Homeland Security’s National Emergency Communication Plan (NECP), ensuring that your installation is eligible for grant funding. Call or e-mail us today to learn about the most advanced mobile emergency response system available. 888-766-1766 • info@gisgeocommand-ﬁre.com www.geocommand.com GEOCommand provides a wide range of customized window options. They include site preplans, emergency response guides, scalable multilayered aerial maps, geographic features, apparatus locations and power & water supply. THAT LIFE MIGHT BE ONE OF THEIR OWN! VITAL INFORMATION WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST. Cage #4MQ87 38 | M ASSACHUS E TTS FI RE C H I E F 2009 http://www.geocommand.com

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Massachusetts Fire Chief 2009 Contents A Message from the FCAM President Code of Ethics/Vision Statement Bonds of Service Legislative Report The Fire Chief for 2009 and Beyond Leading a Combination Fire Department Remember When Fighting for Code Change Leadership Matters Fire Risk Management - Fire Chiefs - Codes The Current Economy and its Effect on Fire Departments Statewide Fire Mobilization Plan Beware of the Truss Index of Advertisers

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