Welcome to the official web site of Michael Wilbur's Emergency Vehicle Response.

Emergency Vehicle Response was born out of Firefighters desire for excellent emergency vehicle driver training over a decade ago. Hence the companies motto "Excellence in Motion". Emergency Vehicle Response offers 18 hours of the best and unmatched Emergency Vehicle Driver Training in the World. This training can be offered at your fire station and includes hands on training on your apparatus. Click the EVOC link for more information on this course.

The newest course offering is Aerial Ladder and Tower Ladder Placement and Operation. This course was design as a direct result of going around the country teaching EVOC and finding out that most Fire Departments do not understand, have not been properly trained and do not get the maximum use out of their aerial devices. This 8 hour course is a dynamic PowerPoint presentation that includes hands on training on your aerial apparatus and buildings in your response area. For more information and a class outline click on the Aerial Operations link.

Apparatus Architect has been running since 2000 as a regular feature of Firehouse Magazine. Tom Shand and Michael Wilbur are the Apparatus Architects and offer a wide variety of Fire Service consulting services. The Apparatus Architects have the knowledge and the expertise in the very dynamic and ever changing Apparatus Industry to get your fire department the very best apparatus that you deserve. The Apparatus Architects have an extensive list of satisfied Fire Departments that have received apparatus consulting, fire station consulting, and fire protection reviews. For more information you can click the Apparatus Architect link. Emergency Vehicle Response has also posted current articles that have appeared in your favorite Fire Service periodicals.

Emergency Vehicle Operation News

Central Fire wrecks $235K wildland fire rig during training exercise, one firefighter suffers minor injury Friday, July 3, 2009 - A Central Fire crew wrecked a wildland engine while training in an off-road park Wednesday and it's unclear if the firefighting apparatus can be salvaged, officials reported Thursday. Three firefighters with experience battling wildla...  [  more  ]

Update - Kingston, RI LODD Thursday, July 2, 2009 - Kingston Fire Chief Nathaniel Barrington said Wednesday that it was still unclear how veteran volunteer firefighter Allan “Pickles” LePage, 67, suffered a mortal head injury at the station on Tuesday afternoon. Barrington,...  [  more  ]

Toronto Deputy Chief Charged Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - A Toronto Deputy Fire Chief faces a charge under Ontario's strict street racing law after the fire department vehicle he was driving clocked 150 kilometres per hour on a highway last week. The cops say the vehicle...  [  more  ]

APPARATUS ROLLOVER IN CANADA Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - Firefighters in Whitby (Ontario, CN) had a close call on this morning when their fire apparatus rolled over into a ditch. The apparatus truck veered into the ditch to avoid slamming into traffic. The truck was cut off by a...  [  more  ]

RHODE ISLAND FIREFIGHTER KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY-APPARATUS ACCIDENT Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - It is with deep regret that we advise you that Kingston fire officials have advised local media that a senior member of their department, who had been seriously injured while working on a ladder truck yesterday, has now died in the more  ]

PA. VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY NAMED IN LAW SUIT RELATED TO DUI INJURY CRASH Friday, June 26, 2009 - A Melcroft man who lost his arm in an automobile accident is accusing Greensburg Hose No. 6 of serving the vehicle's driver too much to drink before the crash on Greensburg-Mt. Pleasant Road. Gregory Andrew Schloer's lawsuit, filed ...  [  more  ]

FLORIDA FIRE APPARATUS CRASH LEAVES CIVILIAN WITH LIFE THREATENING INJURIES-FF's UNHURT-UNIT WAS RETURNING TO QUARTERS Friday, June 26, 2009 - A pick-up truck smashed into West Palm Beach fire-rescue vehicle just after 10 tonight at Palm Beach Lake Boulevard and Congress Avenue leaving one man with life-threatening injuries. The fire-rescue truck was heading south on Congress, ret...  [  more  ]

Responding Texas Volunteer FF Strikes Teen Friday, June 26, 2009 - Fire gutted a San Leon family’s hurricane-damaged house that was just a few weeks shy being move-in ready, a fire official said Thursday. The response to the fire took an odd twist when a San Leon...  [  more  ]

CHIEF EMS OFFICER RESPONDING....CRASHES IN PENNSYLVANIA Thursday, June 25, 2009 - While responding to a drowning twelve year old boy in the City of Pittsburgh, a City of Pittsburgh Medic District Chief was involved in a traffic collision in the Borough of Wilkinsburg. The Chief's vehicle was struck, causing him to los...  [  more  ]

KENTUCKY FIRE APPARATUS CRASH UPDATE Thursday, June 25, 2009 - It must have been divine intervention. Either that or firefighters affiliated with the Meade County Fire Protection District have a special connection with the “man” upstairs. “We are very lucky none of our firefig...  [  more  ]

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