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 ...

Most fire departments, regardless of size and demographics, operate and staff at least one engine company. The response district partly dictates the operational needs for apparatus. Rural departments ...

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 ...

Representing the 4,000th PUC™ Pump milestone, three new Pierce ® Velocity ® PUC Pumpers will enhance the Clark County Fire Department’s ability to protect one of the nation’s most dynamic and ...

Single VFDs are often integrated into new and existing applications due to the huge amount of energy savings and programming benefits. Specialty pump drives often go above and beyond the requirements ...

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 ...

The company’s growth reflects a broader trend in which end users are seeking dependable pumps and engines that can perform consistently under demanding conditions, particularly in safety-critical ...

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 ...