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Improve your Volunteer Fire Department readiness in 2026.

do-it-yourself

A high-level guide to volunteer fire department dispatch, from traditional pagers and radios to modern smartphone apps, text messaging, and group chat solutions.
We created our own CAD to Text Messaging notifications
How to set up Google Forms for fire department voting.
Applying custom calculations to Responserack report data using Spreadsheets.
Ideas for annual awards for a thriving fire department.
When not on scene using radios, fire departments and fire department members need to communicate in sub-groups, and as a whole. Fire station notice boards are no longer the solution.
We created our own CAD to GroupMe notifications
When not on scene using radios, fire departments and fire department members need to communicate in sub-groups, and as a whole. Fire station notice boards are no longer the solution.
Using Everbridge we can send a message to all our team members; phone (land line, mobile, work), email, text messaging - all devices / mechanisms - almost instantaneously.
Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems provide an email interface that can be used to deliver notifications to responders.