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Absolute Fire Solutions
Delivers New Tracking Technology To Helicorp
HELICORP PTY LTD of Melbourne, Aus- sure aerial fire suppression effectiveness, in the coming months and years. We look
tralia is the first client to purchase new and to conduct cost comparisons among forward to implementing this new tool to
FASTTrack technology, which will record complex wildland fires. This new capa- assist fire agencies in increasing produc-
and transmit bucket and tank activity on bility is the result of a three year develop- tivity and cost-effective use of both buck-
its Bell 212 helicopters. This new tech- ment project by AFS, and is now available ets and belly tank equipment on fires.”
nology is designed and manufactured by to operators worldwide. Of the sale Steve Matthews, CEO of
Absolute Fire Solutions (AFS) of Calgary, Expanding on a 20 year history of in- AFS, comments, “We began the project
Canada. FASTTrack has the capability to novation and safety in aerial fire suppres- with the goal of being able to show how
measure, record and transmit in near real sion, Helicorp is a leading provider of much more productive the cockpit vol-
time, the quantity of water, retardant, or heli-firefighting services for Australian ume-controlled FAST Bucket was com-
foam loaded and delivered to a particular Federal and State Governments. pared to conventional cinched buckets.
location during fire fighting operations. Mark Robertson, General Manager of We soon realized that the software and
Once data has been recorded, FASTTrack Helicorp, comments, “FASTTrack tech- hardware could be adapted for tanks as
has the ability to transmit information over nology offers valuable post-action data well as our buckets. Helicorp’s innova-
SATCOM and AFF systems, and display and will help our fire agency clients as- tive attitude and Simplex’s technical ex-
the data for near real-time data viewing. sess productivity and costs more accu- pertise have helped us develop the first
Forestry and fire management agencies rately. It also places Helicorp in the comprehensive hardware solution which
have been moving toward this type of data forefront of operators working with the provides both bucket and tank data to op-
collection as a means to accurately mea- agencies to collect and display this data erators and fire agencies worldwide.”
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