HIVE
2022
HIVE is a system of products designed to reduce line of duty deaths and injury among firefighters through improved real time accountability. The system includes the Swarm Thermal Imaging Camera, Hive Command Board, Hex monitoring band, and Cell Charging station.
The Problem
The fire service generally has inconsistent and inadequate accountability programs that have numerous opportunities for error. In addition, there is currently minimal solutions to accurately monitoring real time the health and well-being of firefighters on a scene in real time.
The failure to asses and respond rapidly to emergencies on the scene of a fire is the difference between life and death.
Purpose
“We never did investigations to the extent that they were needed … but we did some very, very good funerals. If a cop dies, it’s a crime scene. If a firefighter dies, it’s a good funeral.” -Richard M. Duffy
Worcester 6
On December 3, 1999 six Worchester Firefighters ran into a cold storage facility and never returned to their families at the station or at their homes.
Upon entering the “maze-like interior” of the building, “conditions deteriorated rapidly, and interior firefighters became lost with no viable escape route”.
Each one went in with the purpose of looking for their firefighting brothers that had not returned from the fire. With no idea as to where they would be located in the inferno, they all became trapped forever remembered as the “Worcester 6”.
Worchester 6
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Jeremiah M. Lucy
Firefighter
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Thomas E. Spencer
Lieutenant
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Timothy P. Jackson
Firefighter
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Joseph T. McGuirk
Firefighter
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James F. Lyons
Firefighter
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Paul A. Brotherton
Firefighter