Solution to Locating Firefighters Could Be at Hand

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Solution to Locating Firefighters Could Be at Hand

Posted: 06-19-2008

Updated: 06-20-2008 12:52:37 PM

ROB MARGETTA

Congressional Quarterly Homeland Security

Just about every flashy piece of high-tech piece first-responder gear the Department of Homeland Security is working on was packed into a Dirksen Senate Office Building room Wednesday.

There was the radio that can communicate with just about all emergency frequencies, the flashlight that can temporarily blind and nauseate suspects and the air supply tank that weighs one-third of those on the market now. One Massachusetts state trooper walked around in mock-ups of next-generation body armor.

And, dangling from a tripod in one corner of the room was a small backpack, looking like the kind mountain bikers might keep a water supply in, with a series of circuit boards and wires protruding from its top.

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/a...mp;sectionId=46

Finally, a firefighter locator device! (even if it is a prototype)

Mike