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Smart Firefighting Podcast covers real-world deployments of smart technologies through conversations with technologists, innovators, companies, and forward-thinking public safety and government agencies.
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Episode 331: Where Have We Searched? SARCOP, the Common Operating Platform Behind FEMA USAR Teams with Jared Doke (opens the original)
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After a hurricane, a tornado or a wildfire, search and rescue teams need three answers fast. Where do we need to search? Where have we already searched? Where do we go next? SARCOP, the Search and Rescue Common Operating Platform, exists to answer those questions on a map. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting st
Episode 330: Building for the City of the Future: CAD Data, Digital Twins and Station Placement with Craig Hiltz – Darkhorse (opens the original)
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Every fire department already owns years of CAD and RMS data. Most of it sits untouched… Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy. Craig Hiltz of Darkhorse turns that data into a digital twin of the response system, so a chief can test a station, a roving engine or a staffing change on screen before spendin
Episode 329: Precision Over Volume: Rethinking the Fire Nozzle with Jason Floyd of HEN Technologies (opens the original)
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For decades the fire service has answered bigger fires with one move: more water. Bigger lines, bigger turrets, bigger flows. Modern fires have outgrown that equation. In wind driven wildfires, traditional fog streams erode before they reach the flame front. Crews end up battling the nozzle instead of the fire. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to deve
Episode 328: 300 Firefighters in 3.5 Weeks: How San Diego Built VR Search and Rescue Training with Captain J Harris (opens the original)
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Most fire crews get few real repetitions on search and rescue. The calls are rare. The training is expensive. It takes companies out of service, and it adds injury and exposure risk. San Diego Fire-Rescue built a different path. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy. Captain J Harris leads the program. T
Episode 327: A Governance Problem, Not a Technology Problem: Inside Pratus with Roger Coleman and Sean Griffin (opens the original)
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Every disaster review finds the same failure: communication. Crews on 9/11 passed handwritten notes. Agencies at the LA wildfires could not talk across radio bands. During Hurricane Maria, restoration trucks sat at a pier while their ship steamed away. The pattern repeats because the lessons never reach the next operation. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower
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