given a limited budget (meaning – cost effective and cost efficient) what type(s) of technology should fire departments consider to help make the fire ground safer? Base your answer on your reading and outside internet research. Some examples include: integrated personal alarm locators into a self contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), incident mapping technology, and digital fire ground accountability programs.
Consider technology, innovation and implementation and how it impacts the fire service – think of the fiscal impact on an organization, the use, the reliability and successful reality of complexity. Consider additional personal online research to help frame your answer.
Answer previewAccording to Wu (2014), the Fire department may also implement the digital fire ground accountability programs into their systems. This program is meant to ensure that every firefighter that has been assigned to a fire incident ground will return unharmed. For this program to be successful various technology will be used such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) which allows firefighters in the fire ground scenes to be tracked and ensure that they are safe in the line of duty. Firefighting technology is essential to ensure that the safety of the firefighters is enabled through safety enhanced fire technology since they are usually exposed to unsafe environments.
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