Raleigh, NC – July 2008 –– Emergency Technologies, Inc. (ETI) is pleased to announce that the City of Newport News, Virginia has gone live on Visual Fire, ETI’s Fire Records Management Solution.

Emergency Technologies’ integrated Visual Fire application includes Fire Records Management, EMS Patient Reporting, Mobile Field Reporting, Hydrant information and Structural Pre-Plans, along with several additional modules that will provide the Newport News Fire Department with modern technology that will increase operational efficiency throughout the department.

Field Reporting will aid the Department in reaching a paperless environment by streamlining Fire Department activities. Responding Fire Fighters will be able to review building pre-plan information, including what hazardous materials are on-site, while in route to an incident. The ability to see what hazards are in a building before making entry will significantly increase Fire Fighter safety and help prevent injuries and fatalities. The Visual Fire suite, which is developed using familiar and proven Microsoft technology, operates on industry standard Windows Server and SQL Server database.

Newport News is located in southeastern Virginia, occupies a land area of 69 square miles in area; 23 miles long and 3 miles wide, and has a population of 185,200 residents. The Newport News Fire Department employs 377 firefighters and civilian personnel who staff ten Fire Stations, Command, Logistics Bureau, Apparatus Maintenance Division, Public Relations and Education Bureau, Fire Marshal's Office, and Training Bureau. The responding crews typically handle in excess of 30,000 emergency and non-emergency responses annually.

About Emergency Technologies, Inc.

Emergency Technologies, Inc. (ETI) is a software and services company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina that is focused on developing application software exclusively to Fire and EMS Departments throughout the United States. The company designs, develops, markets, supports and implements enterprise-level Fire Records Management Systems, EMS Patient Reporting Systems and Field Based Reporting systems that are tightly integrated with multiple Computer-Aided Dispatch vendors. Visit us on the web at www.EmergencyTechnologies.com.

For more information, contact Emergency Technologies’ Marketing Department by phone at (919) 676-6200 or (800) 485-0202, or by email at Sales@EmergencyTechnologies.com.