1st Responder Blog

February

Posted Tuesday February 23

Has it been a month already?

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With great sadness I have been following the events in Haiti. Dark times like these tend to put a spotlight on the efforts of our brothers and sisters in the rescue community. I would personally like to thank all the brave men and women who are currently working hard to help the people of Haiti.

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Seasons Greetings

Posted Tuesday December 22

I want to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers, distributors, representatives and friends in the rescue community the very best over the holiday season and for the New Year.

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A New Day at CON-SPACE

Posted Friday November 6

Big news! As part of the overall restructuring of our organization, I have accepted the position of President. Decorum prevents me from the obligatory WOO HOO!!! I will leave that up to those of you who like me. In all honesty, I am very excited by this new position and will work hard to improve the search rescue equipment we sell and the service we provide our customers. It’s no secret that the last couple of years have been tough.

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Trial By Fire

Posted Friday October 16

For those of you that don’t know, my house burned down last month due to my neighbor leaving a battery charger attached to an old junker car overnight and it woke the dragon at 7:00am Friday the 21st of August. It was a horrific experience for Katy and I to stand helpless and watch as our family’s treasures, collected over a lifetime, were reduced to ashes in a matter of minutes.

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The Ultimate Rubble Pile?

Posted Wednesday September 30

For those of you who didn’t pick up this August’s edition of Popular Science you missed a really great article on TEEX’s Disaster City. Written by a New York City reporter/novelist, Lisa Taddeo, the writer takes us through a full scale exercise put on by Texas Task Force 1. Taddeo watches as a Searchcam 2000 is inserted into a car dangling in mid-air searching for victims trapped inside.

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Andy’s World – A New Headset

Posted Thursday August 27

When CON-SPACE started out, our mission was to help people communicate in hazardous environments. Our Hardline System was originally developed for maintenance techs working inside aircraft fuel cells. They had no way of communicating with crew chief on the outside other than banging on the walls or yelling through their masks.

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Andy's World - Inspiration behind the new Hanger Headset

Posted Thursday August 27

Inspiration behind the new Hanger Headset
PAPRS - Powered Air Purifying Respirators, especially hoods, make it difficult to communicate with the person next to you let alone over a radio. We set out to design a headset that could be worn comfortably with standard PAPR hoods and helmets/visor types. During the testing phase we realized, with a minor design change, the headset would work with hardhats, helmets, baseball or bump caps.

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And the Winner Is...

Posted Thursday July 2

And the Winner is…….
Richard Schau, a 34-year-old firefighter from West Lake Fire Department, Erie Pennsylvania. Schau, who is the Assistant Fire Chief at West Lake, writes in an email that they respond to an average of 1100 calls per year. This highly-trained volunteer fire department does QRS, Rescue and Firefighting and is also trained in HazMat, Airport Firefighting, Heavy Rescue and Tech Rescue – 95% of this department is trained at an EMT level or higher.
West Lake services a population of approximately 65,000 people.

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Andy’s World - What’s up at CON-SPACE?

Posted Thursday July 2

Well let me tell you, there’s a lot going on . . . and it’s not just the stuff that the outside people see . . .
We’re working feverishly on bringing the SearchCam 3000 into production. While FDIC was our “official” launch, we still have some bugs to iron out and to finish programming the screen menu. We’re taking orders for the new camera and early feedback is very positive. The new SearchCam 3000 will start shipping in September.

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