by Richard OKeefe, Business Development at APX Data | Blog
Firefighters deserve the best data collection tools. If you think settling with pen & paper and static PDF’s is sufficient for your data collection needs, then you are leaving a massive gap in response and the safety of your firefighters and the protection of your...
by Paul Martin, President & CEO, APX Data | Blog
We all know the leader’s intent of the Fire Chief is to minimize cost while maximizing the safety of department personnel and the public, and proper fire pre-planning and inspections are the right things to do in order to meet that intent. Further, with the...
by Paul Martin, President & CEO, APX Data | Blog
(Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News) If there is one group of brave men & women protecting our communities who are always running into buildings when others are running out, it’s our first responders, especially the firefighters. So why was our...
by Paul Martin, President & CEO, APX Data | Blog
(Investigators open criminal probe into LA explosion – AP Photo – Mark J. Terrill) Fire Departments require roughly a million dollars’ worth of assets for each emergency response and here’s how — the fire apparatus – $750,000, 4 firefighters bunker...
by Paul Martin, President & CEO, APX Data | Blog
(Oakland’s Ghost Ship Fire – one of the county’s deadliest and most costly building fires of the century! Image source – NBC News) In our new “world” of digital everything and newspaper printing presses now silent, digital information is clearly here! We...
by Paul Martin, President & CEO, APX Data | Blog
On August 4th, 2020 and with today’s most modern advances, it’s hard to believe that 10 First Responders were unaware and sacrificed their lives in their last emergency response in Beirut. (Image from CNN – Link to article) With property damage estimated at...
