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

Turnout timers, color-changing lights, so-called heart-smart ramping audible tones, and text-to-speech readouts are among the technological innovations that have been applied to fire station alerting ...

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 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 Digital ...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – The Kissimmee Fire Department has activated a new Fire Station Alerting (FSA) system designed to significantly improve emergency response times and enhance firefighter safety. The ...

The Danbury Fire Department has implemented a new alert system that gradually increases volume to reduce stress for ...