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Company History
The Fireline Corporation is a Maryland corporation founded in 1947 by John S. Waters. As a pioneer in the fledgling fire equipment distribution business, John Waters soon saw the benefits of offering exemplary service and high quality products at a fair price. Fireline has lived by this standard for over 53 years and the tradition continues even today. Fireline grew into one of the nation's premier fire equipment distributors during the 1950's and quickly took on new and innovative products as they became available. In the 1960's, Fireline was one of the first companies to promote the use of multi-purpose dry chemical extinguishers and kitchen hood and duct fire suppression systems. In the late 1960's, Fireline became a Pyrotronics fire alarm distributor and a Fenwal Halon 1301 distributor. These manufacturers, and many more systems oriented product lines are still sold by Fireline on a daily basis. In the 1960's a group of fire equipment distributors from around the country met in Chicago at the National Safety Congress and put together the industry's first trade association. The association become known as the National Association of Fire Equipment Distributors (NAFED) and Fireline is one of its Charter Members. Fireline's founder and then President, John Waters, was instrumental in getting this organization off to a healthy start. John Waters was elected as the third President of the NAFED in 1965. Fireline continued to grow throughout the 1970's. It became one of the largest portables and special systems distributors in the country and in 1982, Stephen Waters succeeded his father as President of Fireline. John Waters is still active and serves as Chairman of the Board. Continuing Fireline's support of NAFED, Stephen Waters served as Director of Region 1 and later as President of NAFED from 1985-1987. Fireline is also a member of the Fire Suppression Systems Association (FSSA), the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Stephen Waters currently sits on two technical committees, NFPA 12A, Halon Fire Extinguishing Systems, and NFPA 2001, Alternative Protection Options for Halon. The Fireline Corporation strongly believes that quality in both the products it sells and the services it supplies are essential to operating a fire equipment distributorship. Our management, installation and service personnel reflect the desire to provide quality workmanship at a fair price. The company has two offices. Our main facility is located in Baltimore, Maryland with a branch operation in Leesburg, Virginia. We currently employ over one hundred and ten people.
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ABOUT FIRELINEKey Individuals
Steve Waters is President of Fireline Corporation and has been working for Fireline since 1974. During this time, he has been purchasing manager, vice president and treasurer prior to becoming President in 1982. Mr. Waters has served as Director of the National Association of Fire Equipment Distributors (NAFED) from 1982-1985 and as President from 1985-1987. He currently sits on the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 2001 Alternative Gaseous Agents and 12A Halogenated Extinguishing Systems. Mr. Waters is based out of the Baltimore office.
Phil. Bowers has been with Fireline since 1966 and has held many different positions over the years. After starting as a service technician in our Portables Department, he was later promoted to sales, then Sales Manager before taking over as our Portables Service Department Manager. Mr. Bowers’ department is consistently one of the best performing divisions of the company.
Norm Mason began his fire protection career in 1969 with Walter Kidde, Inc. where he performed service and system installations prior to moving to system sales. From 1984-1989, Mr. Mason worked for Maryland Fire Equipment before joining Fireline to head up our fire alarm sales department. Under Mr. Mason’s leadership, this department has won several awards from leading manufacturers.
Frank Chenoweth joined Fireline in 1987 as a system field technician and later became our System Service Manager in 1992. His department currently employs over 20 individuals dedicated to service of existing systems and many are factory trained by Kidde-Fenwal, Pyrotronics, Notifier and Viking. Mr. Chenoweth actively promotes NICET certification and many in his department have either achieved or are working on achieving this goal.
Dave Riggs joined Fireline In in July, 1999 and he now heads up our Suppression Systems Division engineering department. He comes with an impressive array of credentials--among the very best in the industry. 33 year's of experience in many areas of the fire protection industry, Dave has among his most impressive:
Tom Smallwood joined Fireline in 1970 as a portable fire extinguisher technician. He has served in numerous positions throughout his 30 years with Fireline Corporation and is the manager of the Portables and Pre-Engineered Systems Department in our Leesburg, Virginia Office. Mr. Smallwood is certified in Ansul, Pyro Chem, Kidde, and Amerex pre-engineered dry and wet chemical fire suppression systems.
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