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ARS is Hiring an Office & Customer Service Manager!
ARS needs an Office & Customer Service Manager! About ARS At Anderson Rescue Solutions (ARS), we’re on a mission to design and manufacture innovative, reliable, and life-saving rescue equipment that thrives in reality. As a small but rapidly growing company,...
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FRIDAY FORUM: Perfection
“Simple is best, and perfection is generally about what you can remove rather than what you can add. So beware of over-complexity or complexity for complexity sake.” -Andy Kirkpatrick I don’t believe perfection is obtainable. There will always be a...
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FRIDAY FORUM: Baselines
You can’t see.  You can’t Feel.  Your pulse is 180+.  You think you or someone else might die. This is the baseline.  This is the standard that we design gear for, because this is reality.  If your equipment or techniques...
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FRIDAY FORUM: Nozzle Courtesy
I don’t particularly love getting soaked at fires.  I am well aware it is part of the job.  After all, our principal extinguishing agent is water.  But if I can avoid it, I do. On attic, cockloft, or other fires...
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FRIDAY FORUM: Contrast
Destruction. Beauty. Loss. Love. Words and emotions rarely put together in the same sentence. At disasters large and small though, they are often all present in an awkward contrast that can be hard to rationalize. But I’ve come to believe...
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