Source: TFT,Sponsored Content
Every firefighter knows the smell inside a fire truck or at the station after a working fire. It’s harsh, it’s easily identifiable and, it turns out, it’s deadly for firefighters and first responders.
任何可燃材料的燃烧都会释放出有害的烟雾和烟灰的混合物，这些烟雾和烟灰充满了癌症，导致化学物质渗透到出口装备，设备出租车和您呼吸的空气中。最终，那些不好的东西也使它回到了车站，创造了有毒的生活环境increasing the likelihoodof firefighter illness or death.
Additionally, in recent years, we’ve all become familiar with the need to protect ourselves and our crews from viruses that pose significant health risks to all first responders.
这threats are real. According to statistics published by the Center for Disease Control and The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), between 2002-2019, two-thirds of the line-of-duty-deaths among firefighters were due to cancer. In 2020, one-third of first responder deaths were due to Covid-19. By any measure, those numbers are staggering and unacceptable.
长期以来，时间已经过去了，以保护消防员，急救人员和工作队提示（TFT）可以帮助您有效，有效地降低健康风险。除了他们的协商方法（了解您的独特情况和目标）外，他们的产品名为CrewProtect和Station Protect使用Advanced Technologies来filter the air your crews breathewithin apparatus and at your station.
杰夫希克斯,OEM /健康Channel Manager for TFT, explains CrewProtect, which is an in-the-cab air filtration system for apparatus and StationProtect, a larger unit for use in emergency services buildings, drastically reduces airborne threats to firefighters and first responders.
“We decided to go after the three major threats that are in the fire service today and that would be particulates, off-gassing of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and viruses, including the CoV-2 which is the cause of COVID-19,” Hicks says, noting the system also provides mitigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
特遣部门的技巧是全世界，是一项开发创新水流管理和灭火设备的业务，包括喷嘴，监视器，球进气门等。从第一天开始，公司的核心就一直使世界更安全，更健康，更有生产力，同时帮助急救人员挽救生命并保护财产。这是该公司创始人几十年前完全接受的任务。TFT的母公司Madison Industries扩大了任务。
One of the companies within the Madison Industries family is Purafil, the world leader in the engineering and manufacturing of air filtration media and equipment.
“我们决定利用我们的姐妹的专长company to develop a solution to mitigate those three major threats to firefighters,” Hicks says, noting that Purafil’s technology is used in hospitals around the world to create clean rooms, is used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as well as the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, to protect priceless works of art.
“Our cab decontamination solution uses PuraShield technology from Purafil, which is a patented and proven technology that’s been around for a long time”, Hicks says, noting our system has a four-part filtration system that captures particulates down to nanoparticles, encapsulates them and kills viruses with a proprietary media.
特遣部队和Purashield的工程师共同开发了消防设备出租车以及消防局的设备。
“This is not off-the-shelf technology,” Hicks says. “We went through nine prototypes to come up with the current CrewProtect model.”
希克斯补充说：“任务从一开始就很明显。TFT和Purafil想要任何人都可以使用的简单产品。我们想创建一种易于使用，强大的产品，并且可以进入消防设备以处理消防服务中的日常使用。”
When it comes toCrewProtect，工程师开发了一种产品，该产品几乎可以安装在带有六个螺栓和两根电线的设备的驾驶室中的任何地方，正和负面。当设备打开时，该设备会自动启动。这些设备可以轻松安装在新的设备中，并使用最小的工具和人工，并且可以轻松地改装到现有设备中。
Maintenance is just as easy. The device requires changing the one filter every six months and a series of LED lights alerts you of the condition of the filter so you know when it needs to be changed. Your new filter cartridge is removed from its packaging and slipped into the heavy-gauge steel, powder-coated filtration unit mounted in the cab and the old filter is simply tossed in the trash. Nothing more is required of the user because the filter technology doesn’t simply capture the contaminants, it neutralizes them to a non-hazardous form. The most important part of the system is the filter, Hicks says TFT and Purafil are continuing collaboration creating filters that will provide you protection against the potential next threat whatever that may be. He adds that Chiefs like the idea they won’t need to purchase brand new equipment and technology and install it to provide protection if a new virus or hazard emerges. A simple reconfigured filter is all that will need to be replaced if ever a new threat rears its ugly head, Hicks says. This future-proofed approach is a major benefit.
While it is operating, the CrewProtect moves 100 cubic feet of air per minute (CFM), which means the air inside an average apparatus cab iscompletely filtered every 3.5 minutes. It’s also not affected by open cab windows as it traps and encapsulates particulates and viruses that are airborne, and the agitation of the wind current can help in the purification of the air.
清洁设备驾驶室内的空气只是方程式的一部分，当使消防员和急救人员免受前面提到的三个空降威胁的影响。工作队的提示认识到需要提供air filtration at the firehousetoo and their teams have developed StationProtect for that very purpose.
Hicks says the StationProtect is necessarily much larger as they handle the large volumes of air inside buildings. The equipment uses standard AC power to operate the filtration system – a heavy-duty, industrial system weighing 230 pounds, not including the 80 pounds of filtration media inside.
StationProtect使用与CrewProtect设备相同的过滤技术，并且使用易于使用。这StationProtect每天24小时内，该车站的空气中清除污染物和有害气雾剂时，一直保持在所有时间。就像您的设备中的CrewProtect一样，站在建筑物中易于安装和服务。
希克斯说，消防部门可以将站点设备安装在炎热和温暖的区域中，其中一些最大的污染风险。可以在存储门口装备的位置安装单元，而其他设备可以在设备湾地区安装，在这些设备湾地区，他们有最好的机会通过打开和关闭湾门捕获踢颗粒物。
Another advantage of the technology in CrewProtect and StationProtect is the unit’s ability to capture and neutralize mold, a real benefit in older stations, Hicks says.
One of the hallmarks of the TFT air purification products is that neither the CrewProtect nor the StationProtect emit any byproducts. Hicks says, “One thing we didn’t want to do is replace one bad thing with another. That makes no sense. We needed to capture AND neutralize the contaminants without the potential to release harmful elements back into the air.”
And when it comes to competition, Hicks says TFT air purification systems are competitively priced with purifying systems from other manufacturers. “We believe we are right in the mix with everyone else,” Hicks says, noting the replacement filters are comparatively priced with other replaceable components using different technologies, such as lightbulbs and other filters.
Another advantage of TFT’s air purification equipment is the technology is not affected by ambient temperature as it works in brutally cold climates as well as desert hot temperatures. “The filter just doesn’t care,” Hicks says, noting that moisture, humidity and dampness are of no consequence to the effective operation of the CrewProtect and the StationProtect units.
意识到净化空气始于齿轮的净化，以减少可以在密闭空间中释放的微粒和VOC的数量，因此，特遣部队提示在其阵容中为您提供其他工具 - Decon/pak便携式去污system. The DECON/pak is designed specifically for gross decontamination of firefighter personnel and equipment. The self-contained agent proportioning, and rinse system uses water and approved personnel protective clothing agents to remove as much of the contaminants from firefighters and first responders before they get back into apparatus after fighting a fire.
希克斯将这个概念描述为去除的周期the bulk of the contaminants at the scene, which can off gas for as long as 45 minutes, using the DECON/pak, then the CrewProtect purifies the air in the apparatus as firefighters return to the station where they are protected by the StationProtect purifier. The cycle continues when they get back into the apparatus to respond to the next call.
“TFT provides continuous mitigation,” Hicks says. “Talk to us. We have solutions and are most interested in helping you protect your crews given your unique circumstances.”
