The Idea For A Revolutionary New
Fire Safety Device Is Born

"In 1996, while responding to a residential fire with a possible trapped child, several firefighters and I entered a second floor hallway that was completely filled with thick blinding smoke. Two firefighters entered the room where we believed the child was and began a search. The room, however, had been converted into a sewing room. After several minutes of fruitless searching, the two firefighters suffered injuries when they became disoriented in the cluttered room.

Thankfully, the child had made it out of the house by another exit, but the search of this unoccupied room lead to two injuries and contributed to a costly delay that could have seriously jeopardized a potential rescue.

As a result of this experience, and hearing about similar scenarios playing out around the country every year, I knew that a new safety device was needed, a device to efficiently alert firefighters to the location of loved ones' rooms and to effectively slow the spread of dangerous smoke into those same rooms. That is why I invented The SMOKESTOPPER."

Peter Kuppler
President and CEO of Kuppler Technologies LLC

About Peter Kuppler

Peter Kuppler is President and CEO of Kuppler Technologies, LLC, and inventor of The SMOKESTOPPER, a revolutionary new fire safety device.

At a very young age, Kuppler couldn’t decide which he’d rather be when he grew up, a firefighter or a police officer. As it turns out, his childhood indecision led to a most impressive career as both a firefighter and police officer.

Kuppler first began on his path to become a firefighter when he joined the Farmingdale (NJ) Volunteer Fire Company as a junior firefighter in 1987. Later, he would join the Freewood Acres Fire Company in Howell, NJ. During his tenure in Howell, Kuppler served with distinction and rose through the ranks of the department as Lieutenant, Captain, Assistant Fire Chief, Department Chief and ultimately Township Fire Chief.

Kuppler has worked tirelessly with the Howell Township Fire Prevention Bureau to instruct school children on fire prevention and has received extensive firefighting training. He is a certified fire prevention educator, vehicle extrication instructor, firefighter operations instructor and has received his emergency medical technician certification. Additionally, he is a certified arson investigator and has received training in high angle rescue, confined space rescue and HAZMAT, among several other areas.

Kuppler’s law enforcement career began with the Essex County Sheriff's Department in 1994. He then joined the Interlaken Police Department in 1997. He remained with the Interlaken Borough Police, rising to the rank of Detective serving with the Asbury Park Police Street Crimes Unit. He left Interlaken Borough and joined the Howell Township Police Department in 2004.

As a police officer, he was trained and certified as a K9 Officer and responded to Ground Zero at the World Trade Center during the week of September 11, 2001, while assigned to the North Tower with the Port Authority Police Department.

Currently, Kuppler serves as a Patrol/Field Training Officer in Howell Township, firefighter in Allenhurst, NJ and Police Instructor with the Monmouth County Police Academy, where he instructs police recruits in various phases of their required basic training at the academy.