Mounted search and rescue

["IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN" <ilichten1@verizon.net>]

 

 

 

NUMERIC COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS, INC.

Public Safety Systems Consultants

704 Preston Road, Erdenheim, PA 19038-7327-41

Voice: 215-233-3360 FAX: 215-233-2343

E-Mail: ilichten1@verizon.net

Duns: 108845538

 

For Release On or After 8/21/2008:

 

POSSIBLY FIRST PA FIRE SERICE NFPA 1720 SELF- ASSESSMENT COMPLETED

 

Numeric Computational Systems (NCS) completes first fire service assessment assignment. In anticipation of the revisions to the Pennsylvania laws governing the relationships between fire and EMS response organizations and the municipalities they serve a Montgomery County (PA) township initiated an assessment of its fire and EMS providers using NFPA 1720 as the assessment tool.

 

Mr. Irvin Lichtenstein, President of NCS, Inc. assisted the fire company in responding to this self assessment request.  Using NFPA 1720 as a guideline and applying previous experience in managing volunteer response organizations he documented various traditional practices, collated other policy statements, and updated other standard operating guidelines for submission in support of the assessment.  Mr. Lichtenstein also reviewed the governance documents of the fire company to assure that adequate financial and management controls were in place to assure the municipality’s auditors of the integrity of the process.  He previously had documented the relief association’s practices and procedures to satisfy increased requirements from the PA State Auditor General’s Office.

 

NCS expects that as local municipalities begin the assessment process that either the municipality or the responders will require assistance in completing the process.  We believe that our approach is economical and effective in moving both parties ahead in the service level determination process required by the new statutes.

 

Mr. Lichtenstein is a member of the NFPA, a charter member of the PA Chapter of APCO International, the Montgomery County Fire Chiefs’ Association, Chief of Operations of Southeast Pennsylvania Search and Rescue, a fire service instructor (non-suppression). Mr. Lichtenstein serves on the Emergency Response Committee of GITA and on ASTM International Committees F32 (Search and Rescue), F30 (EMS), and E31 (Electronic Patient Records and Privacy).  He is an active life member of Huntingdon Valley Fire Company No. 1.

 

For further information contact above. Membership does not constitute endorsement or qualification beyond that required for admission.