When Every Second Counts, So Should Your Public Safety Storage
Insights on storage - July 30th 2025
Unlike other storage providers, Montel has long collaborated with police officers, firefighters, and EMS teams to design custom solutions that serve them best so they can best serve their communities. They know that storage is a critical part of any emergency response plan.
From our discussions with first responders, we’ve learned that good public safety storage rests on three pillars:
1. Readiness
Every year, 240 million emergency calls are placed in the United States alone—about seven every second. Emergency services have to be prepared for anything at any time.
But we know that true readiness begins long before an emergency call comes in, with a storage system that both allows for equipment inspection and maintenance during downtime, as well as the stocking of supplies.
2. Security and Compliance
Storage should do more than simply allow for compliance. Truly innovative public safety storage supports and eases your efforts to maintain security and compliance—OSHA, NFPA, HHS requirements for personal protective equipment, and beyond—even during the most extraordinary shifts.
On any given day, a first responder might have to interact with infectious disease or hazardous materials on the job. You have SOPs to protect against illness and contamination, but where does your storage system fit into that plan?
First responders are trained on the safe and effective use of critical tools, medications, and weapons that, in untrained hands, could cause injury or death. This equipment deserves more than just static shelves. It requires custom in-built accessories and intelligent security tech.
3. Space Efficiency for Multi-Use Stations
Stations are not just workplaces—they are a first responder’s second home, where they eat, sleep, train, and relax between calls.
Studies show that by providing everyday accommodations for first responders, station management can reduce their stress and then improve public safety outcomes.
Storage must therefore respect the human side of emergency response by maximizing its potential while optimizing its footprint.
Montel Does Public Safety Storage Right
Powered by collaboration with working emergency response teams around North America, Montel has engineered these storage principles and more into the very best in storage solutions for police, firefighters, and EMS.
Our public safety storage is field-proven and designed to complement and support the dedication of first responders everywhere.
Police and military personnel
For police departments, correctional facilities, and military bases everywhere, we’ve engineered custom storage solutions, both mechanical-assist and powered, including:
Our secure public safety storage for police and military also includes custom accessories like lockable weapons racks and built-in cabinetry to limit access to authorized, trained personnel only.
Firefighters
High-density fire station storage solutions are incomplete without heavy-duty clothing racks and lockers strong enough to handle the weight of turnout gear.
Storage solutions also include built-ins for properly storing hoses, helmets, oxygen tanks, and SCBA masks so they can be inspected and fit-tested during downtime without issue.
EMS
While we’ve always been excited to offer emergency medical teams better, smarter storage for first-aid bags and cumbersome, hard-to-store items like backboards, we’re also here to save space.
Our space-conscious EMS gear storage cuts back on the equipment footprint in your station and leaves room for amenities like kitchens and sleeping quarters—better organization, better work-life balance.
In the Heat of the Moment, Count on Montel Public Safety Storage
If you call the shots on procurement at your police, fire, or EMS station, let Montel help you and your first responders map out a better public safety storage system at your station.
We provide free renders of 2D and 3D layouts, as well as cost estimates, ROI projections, design analysis, planning support, and whatever your teams will need to respond to the call of better storage today.
