RESPONSERACK VOL FIRE DEPT SOFTWARE FYI: Today's email is primarily for Volunteer Fire Departments ... Prepare your VFD for 2025 As we move towards the end of 2024, it is time to make 2025 better for your fire department, for your volunteer firefighters, and for your community. Recruit an Administrator. Chiefs should be mentoring & growing people and department capabilities & culture, not pushing paper. Migrate to Responserack for 2025, and use 2024 to ease into this change. Prepare for the...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
RESPONSERACK VOL FIRE DEPT SOFTWARE NERIS Released (Nov 4th 2024) NERIS (the National Emergency Response Information System, which is to replace NFIRS) was released today. Release of the specification means it is stable for up to a year, and now partners (such as Responserack) can build upon a stable specification. NERIS Specification 1.0.1, Nov 4th 2025 NERIS will roll out to more and more fire departments in early / mid 2025, and NFIRS will shut down at the start of 2026. We have a year to...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
RESPONSERACK VOL FIRE DEPT SOFTWARE NERIS Tactical Timestamps As we continue to explore the differences between NFIRS and NERIS ... Time factors such as the benefits of quick response, and the impacts of delayed arrival and/or delayed operations, are established by comparing operational times to outcomes, including losses. NERIS is directly addressing the time factor of fires & fire operations by collecting timestamps that NFIRS did not. These tactical timestamps are the precise times when...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
RESPONSERACK VOL FIRE DEPT SOFTWARE NERIS working on release Version 1 The NERIS (National Emergency Reporting Information System) standard is closing in on releasing its first specification in November 2024. Unlike NFIRS, NERIS is design to be extended as needed, but already there has been a modernization of its focus. Checkout the specification, and see what you think. Some of the important new points of data collection are: Fire Scene Times (e.g. 360 complete, water on fire, and more.)...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Responserack Responder App The ‘Responserack Responder’ mobile app enables access to your fire department’s data. Your officers and advance users can enter incidents via the app, and others can read reports, see attendance, register for upcoming trainings, file truck checks, and more. Some important things to know: Ensure you can log in to Responserack website with email and password, and then log in to the mobile application with that same email and password. Ensure you set the correct...
10 months ago • 1 min read
What Fire Chiefs Are Saying About Responserack: A Great Alternative to Legacy Fire RMS for Volunteer Fire Departments Responserack, the cloud-based Fire RMS and mobile application, has quickly become a popular choice for volunteer fire departments across the country. Here's what fire chiefs are saying about Responserack: "Responserack is a game-changer for our department. It's easy to use, affordable, and filing reports from the scene, as the call winds down, is an awesome time saver."...
10 months ago • 1 min read
What’s New in February 2024 As we enter 2024 many volunteer departments have loaded or reloaded their calendar of events, finished off their NFIRS for 2023, and a number have uploaded apparatus photographs as they implement truck checks. Based on usage and feedback ( via help.responserack.com ) here are some of the recent visible improvements to the Responserack system. Reports We were getting too many reports, and it was getting harder to find the right report for the job. Some improvements:...
11 months ago • 2 min read
Top Articles for 2023 Here are some of the most popular Responserack posts by views in 2023: Do you celebrate your membership and build morale with Annual Awards? Do you enable your membership to vote for other firefighters? Do you use some or all of these techniques for recruitment and retention? Do you know your Inciweb state fire map link? ( These are great for sharing to your community, since it focuses the map around them. ) Do you leverage Slack (or GroupMe) for internal communications...
11 months ago • 1 min read
Make 2024 work for your VFD It is not too late to make 2024 work for you, and your fire department. Use Responserack to get your NFIRS reports filed, then your grant applications will be much strong for those much needed resources. Responserack helps you get your NFIRS done. Join the many VFDs benefiting from Responserack today. The sooner you start the better 2024 can be for both your administration and your firefighters. Don’t do it the hard way: Skip the USFA eNFIRS website, and forget the...
12 months ago • 1 min read