Firetrace systems have flexible detection tubing and discharge hoses that allow placement wherever there is space on a vehicle. The product detects fires at the earliest stages and then delivers a suppression substance to extinguish fires of all sizes. Controlling the fire while it is small results in more limited damage, which generally translates to less downtime.


school buses in response to a 2014 fire on a route. School bus driver Mary Slate, who the following year won her division at the School Bus Driver International Safety Competition, literally drove the district’s push toward fire suppression systems. “Te fact she had a fire creates a credibility of someone how


truly understands the impact of the system to the driver, the students and parents,” added Fraley. Te Department of Education has since added fire suppres- sions systems to the state’s approved options list, opening the for Kanawha County to install Fogmaker on the districts’ remaining 28 special needs buses. “Kanawha Schools was proactive in increasing safety on their


buses,” said Joe Mirabile, president of USSC Group, which has manufactured and installed 150,000 Fogmaker systems on vehicles around the world.


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If a fire erupts on a bus, suppression must be instantaneous to protect the lives on board. FMNA advanced water mist fire protection system cools, chokes and extinguishes bus engine fires in seconds.


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