About Us
Impact Off-Road Products, Inc. is dedicated to manufacturing the highest quality products for the fire & rescue industry. Our team is made up of off-road enthusiasts who have a combined 59 years of off-road experience. You might say that it is in our blood. Our team has an extensive background in fabrication as well as fire/rescue. Our lead designer has been involved with fire & rescue for 35 years and was fire chief for the last 10 years. He also worked in an ASME Code Welding Shop as an ASME Code Welder for 25 years before coming on board with Impact. The Impact design team brings a combined 41 years of fabrication experience to the table.
Impact Off-Road Products, Inc. uses the latest technology and equipment in the fabrication process. From our laser to our tube benders, all of our equipment is CNC controlled which results in a more accurate and consistent product.
We are continually testing our products and gathering customer feedback to ensure that we manufacture the most advanced products on the market. We test our products several times a year in some of the harshest off-road environments available. We do several tests a year at Carolina Adventure World which is located in South Carolina and a yearly test at the Hatfield-McCoy trails in West Virginia. These tests ensure that our products will hold up in ANY & ALL conditions.
OnSite Health & Safety Services
OnSite Health & Safety Services is a unique company that provides Healthcare, Industrial Safety, and Technical Rescue Training as well as High Angle and Confined Space Rescue Standby Services. OnSite currently oversees the construction site safety for the Duke Energy Coal Gasification Plant, an 800 acre construction site located in Knox County, Indiana. OnSite provides confined space, high-angle rope, fire watch and EMS standby services for over 1800 workers. OnSite uses the A.R.U. as the primary response vehicle. The A.R.U. runs 20 hrs a day, 7 days a week. During bad weather the A.R.U. is the only vehicle that can get to all areas of the 800 acre facility according to OnSite owner Kurt Behme. Behme explains that in the event of an emergency, the A.R.U. would be used to transport a patient, loaded in a stokes basket, to a staging area where an ambulance would transport the patient to the nearest hospital.
The OnSite A.R.U. is equipped with the following options, full enclosure, roof, winch, LED lights, siren, oxygen bottle mount, stretcher mount, 2 extra seats, a Davit Arm and multiple tool holders. OnSite uses the A.R.U. to carry a 3 man team. On the roof is a pre-rigged stokes basket, tripod, shovel, pry bar, halligan, and a 20 lb extinguisher.
Behme adds that the roof design for stretcher/stokes basket, ample storage cabinetry, along with the ability to carry 4 people or 2 people and a patient makes for a “GREAT” multi-purpose vehicle.
Haws Run ready for off-road rescue
March 30, 2008 - 9:45PM
LINDELL KAY
DAILY NEWS STAFF
Plenty of emergency response agencies in North Carolina use all-terrain vehicles, but Haws Run EMS/Rescue is the first squad in the state to have an All-Terrain Response Unit.
The difference is the ARU is equipped to allow medical responders to treat a patient while transporting him or her out of a rough patch.
Partially purchased with a matching funds grant from the state, Haws Run now has an all-wheel drive Kawasaki Mule that can make it to spots other rescue vehicles could never reach, said Chief Anne Parker.
"We have had several incidents over the years where we needed to get into a wooded area that our rescue pick ups just could not fit," she said. "For instance, if a hunter has a heart attack a mile into the woods, this little vehicle will allow us to drive in there and carry him out."
The golf cart-sized, four passenger ARU is constructed of aluminum sheets; and the fuse holders, switches and wiring are made of marine grade materials to allow for operation in all-weather conditions, according to Impact Off-Road Products, Inc., the manufacturer.
Haws Run opted for a vehicle package that included a stretcher plate, winch mounts and an oxygen bottle. The vertical bins on the back hold an automatic electronic defibulator and "jump bag" with bandages and other emergency supplies.
The right side seats in the vehicle can be converted within 30 seconds into mounts to hold a stretcher, and the ARU is built to give an accompanying attendant unobstructed access to a transported patient, according to the manufacturer.
Parker said the squad did not spend $5,000 for a stretcher because the mounts in the ARU are compatible with every ambulance stretcher used in Onslow County.
She said the best part of buying the new vehicle is that is was purchased without having to ask county taxpayers to pitch in.
"We have purchased this with no county funds whatsoever," Parker said. The vehicle will also come in handy at all the various festivals around Onslow County where the ARU will be able to weave through crowds and reach people in need, Parker said.
Members of the rescue squad went to Indian Trail, NC where the ARU is built, to test drive the vehicle before buying it.
The test drive track included woodlands, gullies, downed trees, areas filled with tree stumps and protruding roots.
"The ARU went right over all of that with no problem," Parker said.