SINGAPORE: Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) firefighters battling a raging industrial blaze can spend hours doing backbreaking work while ...
SINGAPORE: Singapore Civil Defence Force firefighters battling a raging industrial blaze can spend hours doing backbreaking work while enduring intense heat. Their body temperatures spike, not helped by the bulky protective equipment they have to wear.
“The RPV leverages on science and technology and we really would like to have this vehicle to improve our operations as well as the welfare and standards of our responders,” RPV project officer Captain Edrick Lim said.The RPV comes with three types of cooling equipment for responders to dip their forearm or body in cold water. Studies have shown this technique is the quickest way of reducing temperatures, as compared to body cooling units, cooling packs and ice packs.
Based on research, Cpt Lim believes the vehicle is the “first in the world” for combining three custom-built cooling methods on a single platform. The RPV, manned by a pair of paramedics and emergency medical technicians, is an improvement on SCDF’s Responders’ Performance Module. The latter, launched in 2013, is a 20-foot container with similar capabilities that had to be towed.
This is a step up from the Responders’ Performance Module, which could only deploy eight chairs without immersion capabilities on either side. Fans were used instead of cool air. There are two rows of four aluminium seats for optimal heat conduction. Responders again dip their forearms in 15 degrees Celsius water for 20 minutes.The difference is that these armrests automatically fill with water, with the ability to maintain its temperature regardless of how much heat is dissipated. Machines continuously monitor a responder’s temperature, heart rate and oxygen level.
The tub is also portable enough to be deployed outfield and in medical centres. Responders who undergo cold water immersion must be sent to hospital to be further assessed for heat injury.The RPV was conceptualised in 2016 after the Responders’ Performance Module was shown to work during operations. It also built on an earlier predecessor called the Mobile Body Cooling Unit, which is an ambulance retrofitted with fans and pressurised water mists.
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