Fire department leaders point to research linking gradually increasing alert volume to smaller heart-rate increases.

WATERTOWN — The Watertown Fire Department made history two weeks ago. It retired a decades-old station alerting system and activated its new state-of-the-art IT alerting system: the cutting-edge US ...

Disussions around FireFusion 2025 focused on technology making operations and emergency response more efficient, but one session dialed in on ensuring firefighters have access to safer, faster and ...

A study found that alert systems using an immediately loud sound increased firefighter heart rates by a median of seven beats a minute, compared with five beats a minute under a system that phased in ...

The new setup is integrated into the computer-aided dispatching system. So when a dispatcher takes an emergency call and logs the initial information, it can alert the stations and units faster than ...