DUBLIN, IRELAND (31st March 2010) - The wailing sound of emergency services sirens will soon be a sound of the past thanks to a rescue technology firm based in Ireland. Tomorrow morning, at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Decisions For Heroes will launch a new product, TIME-WARP. The company specialises in the automated analysis of incident and causalty records and Director Robin Blandford believes TIME-WARP marks not only the end of sirens, but also that of pagers and other personal reactive alerting devices worn by responders.

TIME-WARP enables responders to be rostered on-call, available at the most likely time for an incident to occur. Using geographic and hour-on-hour distribution analysis on a segment of historic data, the software is able to notify responders prior to an upcoming incident.

With no sirens required, responders may drive safely in advance to the scene of the incident. They can be ready waiting in their vehicle up to 90 minutes before and within 45ft of the location of the accident that they will later respond to. "Not only will teams save more lives, but TIME-WARP saves your time too" explains Blandford. He continues, "If TIME-WARP tells you no incident will happen that afternoon, then you can send your team home early - no cover needed".

Commander Joe Kerr's team, United Nations Rescue & Emergency Aid, London, undertook early system trials, "4pm on a Sunday at 52 34.2N, 6 34.23W; that's our spot. It was so accurate that last week we took the light bars off the vehicles - we just weren't using them anymore". Commander Kerr's team responded to 123 of 82 emergencies before they even happened.