METTAG tags are made of waterproof, fire-resistant, and chemical-resistant synthetic paper that won’t fail in extreme conditions. Fire departments, wildland teams, and emergency planners across the ...

Dennis and Ken Ortiz are in the business of disaster. The Ortiz brothers, both captains for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, run a small business that provides tools emergency crews can use to ...

Disaster Management Systems, a leader in Triage and Disaster solutions helping responders organize, identify, and manage incidents involving multiple patients, disaster and mass casualty incidents in ...

The Anaheim Fire Department in Orange County, Calif., has thousands of RFID-enabled patient triage tags ready for use in the event of a mass emergency. By year’s end, the department plans to equip all ...

This article was originally published by RFID Update. June 2, 2009—Researchers working with the Finnish Defence Forces tested an RFID-based patient identification system that utilized mobile phones ...