Mobile Apps Help Volunteer Firefighters

How do Mobile Applications help Volunteer Fire Firefighters?

Most volunteer firefighters have a phone (or mobile device) available at most times, from home and work to on the go. Bringing their fire department information to meet them there allows them to connect more often, and fit fire department tasks into small breaks in their day.

After work they can review recent calls, or check their annual response numbers, or see when the next events and trainings are occurring. All this makes it easier for your firefighter to stay engage with their department. Engaged firefighters are retained firefighters.

Here are some of the things that firefighters benefit from:

• Reviewing incident reports; checking attendance and learning from tactics, reinforcing formal and informal SOPs. Gaining experience from calls they aren’t even on.
• Checking upcoming training events; what / where / when and who else is attending.
• Reviewing their numbers; how many incidents did they respond to, how much training?
• Connecting with membership; calling or texting other firefighters, mentoring new members.
• Filing apparatus checks from the station, or reporting an issue.

These are just a small sampling of the benefits of enabling your firefighters with their fire department information. The Responserack mobile application provides this and more.

Mobile applications for Volunteer Firefighters

There are many mobile applications that benefit volunteer firefighters, and here are just a small sampling. Check your device’s app store for more.

First Response / Communications

• First Responder safety with Railways
• Group Me, Slack and group messaging
• Whatever you need for Public Communications e.g. Facebook, Next Door, Wordpress, MailChimp and so on.

Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Hazardous Materials - Emergency Response Guide (ERG)

Wildland Firefighting

• An offline PDF viewer (e.g. Google Drive) for offline review of PDFs, e.g. IRPG.
• Backcountry / Fire Mapping
• Mountain Peak Location identification
• Smoke Column Triangulation

Medical Response

• Protocols Applications

Many More …

There are increasingly more mobile applications for volunteer firefighters, so check out your mobile devices app store.