RETAILER NEWS


Not Your Average Install


Passenger vehicles tend to be the norm for most mobile electronics retailers, but not for Chris Corwith, president of CC Electronics Installations in Water Mill, N.Y. His bread and butter are emergency vehicles.


Corwith and his team install emergency lights, sirens, radios, equipment, command cabinets, push bars, backup cameras, Bluetooth kits, remote starts and anything else by request. The vehicles are typically large SUVs such as Chevy Tahoes and Ford Expeditions. He’s been working with municipal agencies for more than 10 years, building police cars and fire chief vehicles. In his area, every town has a fire department and each department has generally three fire chief vehicles. Every two years, the top incoming chief of the department generally pick a new vehicle and outfits it with lights, sirens,


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radios and other equipment necessary to respond to a fire call. Corwith has throughout the years developed many good relationships and has been able to secure a lot of business. His installation work ranges from 15 to 20 hours, sometimes up to 75 hours depending on the equipment. On average, the job costs roughly $10,000 per vehicle. Some departments may have less money in their budgets for equipment and install, but it still gets them the basics: lights, sirens, console and installation. Other departments have much larger budgets and might spend from $15,000 to over $30,000. “They add so many lights that the truck looks like the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, but brighter!” said Corwith. “They will add rugged computers with docking stations, fingerprint readers for attendance at a fire scene, thermal imaging cameras, two-way radios and gold-leaf striping, among other things.”


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