North State Audio Visual

Fire Incident Operational Support

Fire Incident Operational Support

North State AV understands the challenge of deploying a huge wildfire command center on location in a potentially unfamiliar town in a matter of a day or two. You need vendors who answer the phone and have the gear and staff available on a moments notice ready to leave town immediately. People who are responsible, reliable and safe, who know how to do all the things you might ask of them without struggling, with a positive and team oriented attitude and quickly. We have worked hard to build our staff and inventory to meet the needs of our fire and forestry crews throughout California. This involves detailed classroom training and demonstrations and predesigned packaged systems that are dedicated to rolling out on these fires. The following are just some of the services we offer for Fire Depoloyments and a specific description that clearly shows exactly how we differentiate ourselves from our competitors. To book these services for your deployment call Bob Tolar on his mobile line at (530) 570-1212. If I don’t answer please leave a message, I’ll be calling back in under a minute most likely.

LED VIDEO WALLS

Our video walls are newly purchase from YES Tech. They are 3.8 mil, 5000 nitts and all weather. This means they are perfectly visible with the sun shining directly on the image, they can be rained on violently, handle high winds, dust and smoke and perform under a variety of voltage and power conditions making them ideal for hostile environments and for running on portable generators 24/7. This means it does not matter if we are indoors or outdoors, hot or cold, dry or wet weather or on grounds power or a gene-they just work perfectly all the time every time. One less thing for us to worry about. We suspend them in a variety of ways but always with proper rigging and wind safety in mind and to allow the presenter to reach all areas of the map without blocking it from view. We own enough panels for three simultaneous deployments.

LIVE CAMERAS

We run a two camera shoot with high end PTZ cameras (robotic remote control Pan, Tilt Zoom) This allows us to preset multiple shots on each of the cameras and we cut between them to give the finished product a polished professional broadcast quality look. It also allows us to zoom in closer on the map and or other pertinent data on the screen as needed without expending the cost of an additional staff person to run the cameras. Our systems are completely manageable and can be run by one skilled individual. We own one dual PTZ camera system and can do two additional deployments using conventional high quality video cameras on tripods. When you contact us we will tell you what is available. The PTZ system is a perc of hiring us and does not cost extra.

VIDEO STREAMING AND CONFERENCING

We know every streaming platform inside and out, from Facebook Live and You Tube to Zoom and Teams.
The following are standard features of our streaming services and what we feel differentiates us from other AV companies:

We create a title slide for every command meeting. We always start the stream with the title slide specific to the incident operational briefing on the LED Wall screen and output to the stream, so that the thumbnail of the resulting recording file on You Tube is this title slide as opposed to a camera shot of the stage showing the first image filmed. This makes for a consistent and professional menu of available videos that clearly shows the date, time, pertinent incident and topic or meeting title.

We include bottom third graphic overlays using a downstream key which will include the current presenter’s name, rank or title. As well as their agency and team logo. This provides a polished final product that stands out on the You Tube or Facebook site as a top notch professional product.

All deployments include a presentation computer, a streaming computer and a spare computer. All our computers are new, state of the art high end gaming machines with Windows 11 and a large menu of fully up to date and licensed software. All three machines are the same and can be interchanged into any role seamlessly and instantly. For this reason, as a standard practice, we load all presentation graphic files as well as streaming addresses and account logins into the spare laptop prior to each meeting so that in the unlikely event a spare laptop must be deployed the delay will be extremely brief as it ready to go for either role.

SOUND SYSTEM and WIRELESS MICROPHONES

As a successful and experienced concert and commercial sound company we are expert sound engineers and will make any reverberant fairgrounds echo chamber sound as clear and comfortable as humanly possible. We employ only the highest end Shure digital wireless microphones which we clean and sterilize after every job. We maintain wireless systems in every frequency group made by Shure and when they are deployed we utilize an online frequency finder tool to make sure that the wireless mics we are deploying are in the correct frequency group so as to not conflict with local TV stations and other registered FCC wireless bands present within that zip code. This ensures we have no conflicts and clear reception throughout the deployment. Our mixing strategy includes a “mix minus” output for the outgoing stream that does not include the audio output from laptops that are downloading remote conference participants, the underlying cause of the echo effect that so often plagues amateur streaming companies.

STARLINK INTERNET

We own three Starlink Internet Systems and maintain a TB per month data transfer account at speeds of over 25 Mbps upload and 200 Mbps download. These units allow us to provide our own internet connectivity at amazing speeds and reliability in any environment. Rock solid in up to a category 5 storm, this satellite internet service is the next generation of internet technology on planet earth. We can handle three simultaneous deployments with these units or we can provide them for your administrative trailer office internet connectivity, camp ground wifi for the troops or any other purpose you come up with.

TVs on STANDS

We own (10) Flat Panel TVs in 65 and 70 inch models. All of them are like new, have industrial truss mounts and feature software allowing us to plug a flash drive in and display a slide show of your daily content for digital signage throughout the command center grounds. They are supported on industrial strength aluminum truss stands with heavy weighted base plates. Each evening our staff will retrieve your email with the next morning’s media files in JPEG format including meal menus, maps, meeting schedules and demobilizations. Our staff will then load the content onto a flash drive for each TV employed and the next morning at the time you require this new content will be installed and running. We always travel with distribution devices and cabling to link any number of TVs together in the event you decide to have them deployed as a synchronized set within a single location.

STAGING and PIPE & DRAPE

We having staging available complete with stairs on one side a ramp on the other and the stage is dress skirted. For incident operational briefing applications, we usually provide an 8’ x 20’ stage that is 24” tall. This stage can be deployed by a single person in about ½ hour. It’s all about getting on site quickly the night before and being ready for that 7AM briefing.

LICENSED, INSURED & DECORATED

North State AV holds C10 and C7 electrical contractor’s licenses, we are CTS certified, are licensed riggers, are insured extremely well and have 30 years experience providing a wide variety of services to numerous regional clients. We try to be pillars of our community donating services and equipment for numerous local charities on ongoing basis. These are lucrative contracts that should be awarded to deserving vendors. We promise to be one of those vendors.

To book these services for your deployment please call Bob Tolar on his mobile line at (530) 570-1212. If I don’t answer please leave a message, I’ll be calling back in under a minute most likely.