Emergency Technologies, Inc. Acquired by Ten-Eight Inc

RALEIGH, N.C. - Nov. 6, 2013 - PRLog -- Raleigh, NC – November 6, 2013 – Emergency Technologies, Inc. (http://www.emergencytechnologies.com/) (ETI), a leading provider of Fire and EMS software solutions, has recently been acquired by Ten-Eight (10-8) Inc. ETI received a significant financial investment that will enable the company to focus on newer technologies such as mobile, tablet-based inspections, and web-based NFIRS reporting, with a focus on software as a service (SaaS) options for fire departments.

Mr. Jeff Robertson will assume the role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, leading ETI’s future growth.

Mr. Robertson brings to ETI a broad range of public safety industry expertise, including knowledge he has gained from direct, hands-on public safety experience. Most recently Mr. Robertson was managing partner at Robertson & Associates, and a previous member of ETI’s Board of Directors. He also served as Vice President and General Manager of Intergraph’s US public safety division. Mr. Robertson was also the executive director of the 911 Industry Alliance, an organization that represents the emergency communications industry in the development of emergency technology infrastructure and policy. Additionally, Robertson served as CEO of TCI-TelControl and CEO of CML Emergency Services.

“Fire software is a growth area, and we believe ETI is well positioned to help fire departments across the country save time and money and focus on serving the public.  Never before have fire departments been so pressed from a budgeting perspective, and one of our goals is to help them in these tight economic times.  Our new funding will allow us to bring next generation products into the market quickly,” stated Robertson.

ETI provides a comprehensive suite of public safety software solutions exclusively for medium and large Fire Departments and EMS Agencies. Visual Fire (http://www.emergencytechnologies.com/Solutions/Fire.aspx), ETI’s flagship product, is an enterprise-class Fire and EMS Records Management System (FRMS) which allows Fire Departments and EMS Agencies to automate many of their operations, including submitting required incident reports to state and federal authorities.

About Emergency Technologies, Inc. (http://www.emergencytechnologies.com/)

Emergency Technologies, Inc. (ETI) is a software and services company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina that is focused on developing comprehensive, enterprise-class, public safety software solutions exclusively to Fire and EMS Departments.  The solutions allow fire departments to automate many of their operations, including submitting required incident reports to state and federal authorities. The company designs, develops, markets, supports and implements highly configurable, National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) 5.0 compliant Fire Records Management Systems (http://www.emergencytechnologies.com/Solutions/Fire.aspx) (Fire RMS), NEMSIS Gold compliant Emergency Medical Services Patient Reporting systems (http://www.emergencytechnologies.com/Solutions/EMS.aspx) (e-PCR) and Field Based Reporting (http://www.emergencytechnologies.com/Solutions/Mobile.aspx) systems that are tightly integrated with multiple Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) vendors. Since 1995 Emergency Technologies, Inc. has been dedicated to enriching the quality of life in communities by providing technology solutions for public safety agencies.

For more information, please visit www.EmergencyTechnologies.com. Follow ETI on Twitter at http://twitter.com/EmergencyTech.