Firefighters and incident commanders are using more rugged laptops, tablets, and hand-held devices both in the cabs of fire apparatus and on the scenes of fires and other emergencies.
Around the time Grove developed its ladder tower in the early 1970s, Mahlon Zimmerman purchased Grove’s aerial ladder division. He called it Ladder Towers Incorporated (LTI) and moved it to Leola, PA.
Unfortunately, there remains a lot of misinformation within the fire service about our standards, almost all of which are National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards.
In my job, I get to communicate with firefighters from all around the world. This leads to some interesting conversations about how they operate, types of responses, and obviously thermal imaging.