Whereas Part 1 of this three-part installment covered connections to and power sources for fire pumps (August 2024), and Part 2 dealt with disconnecting means, overcurrent protection, and transformers ...

ST. LOUIS – A nationwide shortage of volunteer firefighters is being addressed with a new technology developed by a former firefighter from the St. Louis region. IDEX’s Commercial Director of Research ...

Pre-arrival size-up of the fireground—before a fire and once dispatched to a specific address—is absolutely critical and must be done for all fires to have overall successful mitigation. This must ...

Mega warehouses that are springing up across the country contain unique challenges for firefighters even though they are equipped with fire protection systems. Following a 2022 fire in a 1.2 million ...

Part I of this series introduced the lead/lag control strategy as it applies to parallel pump operation and discussed the need for identifying the designer’s intent for a particular system. Part II ...

KASE Pumping Systems was founded as a specialist in carbon fiber composite pump systems for fire trucks and other industrial applications, filling a need in the industry to build lighter weight, ...

In the first installment of this three-part series of articles, featured in the August 2024 print issue and online, we discussed fire pump requirements along with Code-related references in the ...