Fire Departments have enough on their plates without more work, and migrating from NFIRS to NERIS is more work. The good news is that Responserack makes it easy for volunteer fire departments, well worth the effort, and not too much effort at that.
NERIS is the National Emergency Reporting Information System, the modern replacement for the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). Whereas NFIRS was created on paper back and brought into the digital world, NERIS was designed for today’s needs and technologies.
If you are reporting on paper (or perhaps some home grown system of forms or spreadsheets) and not reentering into NFIRS (via eNFIRS) you are about to significantly improve your eligibility for grants, and also dramatically improve the visibility into your department, membership contributions, and more. Your reporting abilities are about to sky rocket.
If you are reporting to eNFIRS you are in for a very pleasant improvement. No painfully slow screen refreshing as you enter data, and often you can enter much of the data from the incident onto a mobile application.
For some Fire Departments, NERIS is forcing them to leave behind the Firehouse Software they know and love, or at least supplement it with a NERIS solution. For some, their Fire RMS is not supporting NERIS. Some Fire RMSs are just becoming too expensive.
Responserack is a Fire RMS that is solely for volunteer fire departments, and dedicated to making fire reporting painless for volunteer departments. Learn more about how Responserack uniquely benefits volunteers, and is focused on the needs of volunteer firefighters and volunteer departments.
Responserack helps volunteer fire departments migrate to NERIS.
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Responserack provides services for volunteer fire departments; member information services, incident reporting, NFIRS and so much more.
