■ REV GROUP announced the opening of two REV Fire Group California Sales and Service Centers located in South San Francisco and Riverside, California. REV Fire Group’s Sales and Service Center locations offer factory direct sales of three trusted fire truck brands: E-ONE, Ferrara, and KME. The REV Fire Group’s Sales and Service Centers provide a range of services and capabilities, such as annual service and inspections for chassis, pumps, and aerials; body and aerial remounts and apparatus refurbishments; and basic maintenance, bodywork, repairs, and fabrications. This new facility replaced the former Ontario Sales and Service Center building and is scheduled to open in spring of 2019. www.revgroup.com.
■ EURAMCO GROUP unveiled its new Web site www.ramfan.com. The new Web site, focused on the RAMFAN product line, has been designed to provide a better, user-friendly experience with improved navigation and functionality throughout, allowing visitors to access detailed product information and an option to shop for spare parts and accessories for new or currently owned products. The Web site has been designed using the latest technology, so the site is compatible with today’s browsers and mobile devices without the need for Adobe® Flash to view it. The responsive Web site will detect what device is connected to the website and provide an optimized, easy to navigate layout. www.ramfan.com.
■ TARGETSOLUTIONS and HALLIGAN have partnered to deliver technology for tracking fire apparatus and equipment inspections on a mobile device. Through this partnership, TargetSolutions will deliver TargetSolutions Check It, built for streamlining routine maintenance checks of trucks, tools, medical supplies, drugs, and other items logged in inventory records. The application will be accessible through the TargetSolutions platform. With TargetSolutions Check It, agencies can create customized checklists or download checklists from a shared library and track their resources online and view intuitive reports featuring automatically generated graphs and figures. These easy-to-digest records help agencies visualize risk, ensure performance, and achieve compliance. TargetSolutions Check It will be available on desktop and iOS and Android mobile devices in April. www.targetsolutions.com/check-it. www.vector-solutions.com.
■ KIMTEK CORP. announced a new partnership with MERCEDES TEXTILES, Canadian manufacturers of firefighting systems including hoses, couplings, adapters, accessories, and pumps. KIMTEK has made Mercedes Boostlite® non-collapsible reel booster hose the new standard on all its UTV and Truck FIRELITE® skid units that feature the Hannay 4000 series reels. Heavy-duty and kink-resistant even at low pressure, Mercedes Boostlite hose weighs an average of 30 pounds less than rubber jacketed booster hose. This state-of-the-art addition represents another fixture to KIMTEK’s long list of trusted product offerings available on its skid units, which already includes W.S. Darley pumps, Hannay reels, Scotty foam systems, and many others. www.kimtekresearch.com. www.brushtruckskids.com.
■ U.S. FIRE PUMP announced Bob Gliem as the company’s new technical sales director. Gliem, who joins the team from Ferrara Fire Apparatus, is a 29-year fire service veteran. He has extensive training and knowledge of industrial and advanced foam firefighting. Gliem has served as a foam firefighting subject matter expert and instructor for various agencies around the world. He has taught on the use of fixed and mobile foam firefighting systems and fire apparatus. He previously served as assistant fire chief for one of North America’s largest refineries with extensive training in confined space rescue, high-angle rescue, hazardous materials response, and flammable liquids firefighting. www.usfirepump.com.
