Firefighters using touch screen computers
[2008-4-16]
COLD SPRING - Building plans, hydrant locations and emergency contacts are at every firefighters' fingertips as they roll to an emergency from the Central Campbell County Fire District.
The district has installed special touch-screen laptops loaded with information they collect from inspections that they can access en route to an emergency.
The laptop computers, loaded with First Look Pro software, replace multiple books, some as thick as 12 inches, that had to be carried on each fire truck, said Chief Gerald Sandfoss.
Now, any information like an emergency contact, or a physical change to a building can be entered into the computer system instantaneously, Sandfoss said.
Before, a new page in each one of the on-board fire truck books had to be taken out and replaced with any updated information, he said.
The software used on the laptops also uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.
"It shows them how to get there, and in today's world you have so many streets with similar names," Sandfoss said.
The computer system also allows firefighters to pre-load any extra information that might help them to know when responding to a fire.
For instance, if a person knows their elderly parent lives alone and sleeps in a second floor bedroom, or there is a disabled person in the house, the department can make a special note they'll see while on their way to the scene of an emergency, he said.
"It just gives us so much more advantage of knowing what you're going into," he said.
The department can create specialized response plans for specific emergencies at locations in the city, and that takes some of the pressure off an incident commander, he said.
Plans can be as specific as the first truck in checks out the sprinkler system and shuts off the electric during a fire, Sandfoss said.
The importance of the laptops are that they are touch screen, which makes them easier to use than a regular laptop computer during an emergency, he said.
The department can also share things like building plans with police during a crisis, said Lt. Mary Clair.
One of the features useful to all emergency responders is that using the GPS system, the computers can show what exact streets need to be evacuated in something like a 1,000-foot radius around something like a chemical hazard, Clair said.
"When you're going down the road and look it up, and you have an idea of an action, it saves time," she said.
The district has installed special touch-screen laptops loaded with information they collect from inspections that they can access en route to an emergency.
The laptop computers, loaded with First Look Pro software, replace multiple books, some as thick as 12 inches, that had to be carried on each fire truck, said Chief Gerald Sandfoss.
Now, any information like an emergency contact, or a physical change to a building can be entered into the computer system instantaneously, Sandfoss said.
Before, a new page in each one of the on-board fire truck books had to be taken out and replaced with any updated information, he said.
The software used on the laptops also uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.
"It shows them how to get there, and in today's world you have so many streets with similar names," Sandfoss said.
The computer system also allows firefighters to pre-load any extra information that might help them to know when responding to a fire.
For instance, if a person knows their elderly parent lives alone and sleeps in a second floor bedroom, or there is a disabled person in the house, the department can make a special note they'll see while on their way to the scene of an emergency, he said.
"It just gives us so much more advantage of knowing what you're going into," he said.
The department can create specialized response plans for specific emergencies at locations in the city, and that takes some of the pressure off an incident commander, he said.
Plans can be as specific as the first truck in checks out the sprinkler system and shuts off the electric during a fire, Sandfoss said.
The importance of the laptops are that they are touch screen, which makes them easier to use than a regular laptop computer during an emergency, he said.
The department can also share things like building plans with police during a crisis, said Lt. Mary Clair.
One of the features useful to all emergency responders is that using the GPS system, the computers can show what exact streets need to be evacuated in something like a 1,000-foot radius around something like a chemical hazard, Clair said.
"When you're going down the road and look it up, and you have an idea of an action, it saves time," she said.
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