Why Chose Responserack vs Emergency Reporting Software in 2021

Coordinate fire information, don’t file fire records

Emergency Reporting Software was a pioneering web product decades ago, and was quite useful (before FEMA NFIRS created free tools like eNFIRS) allowing fire departments to keep records and run reports.

Legacy That said, a lot has changed in the past two decades. Emergency Reporting has become an exceedingly dated legacy product (both in underlying technology and user experience) that remains proudly a records management system; a dry database of incident reports, database records and various reports.

Back Office Emergency Reporting is neither conveinient nor accessible to most firefighters; it neither serves their needs nor satisfies their interest. ERS is - at best - a legacy “back office tool” for tolerant administrators, not firefighters.

What sets Responserack apart from Emergency Reporting Software (ERS)?

Modern / Mobile firefighters need the right information at the right time, they need mobile simplicity, and firefighters (especially volunteer firefighters) need limited NFIRS complexity. Firefighters need information delivered to them; effective tools designed for their needs, not designed by NFIRS compliance.

Responserack brings information up to the firefighter, on their terms; presenting it simply and effectively. Responserack engages firefighters with their fire department data.

Responserack helps firefighters, yet also powers administration.

Contact us here to learn more how Responserack helps your fire department:

More about the Responserack advantage:

• Simple member views; for incidents, attendance numbers and briefings.
• Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) integration with digital membership dispatch notification.
• Real-time incident response view; responders, incident location, and contextual place notes.
• Communications posts; sharing information, images, videos amongst the membership.

• Automated incident review and administrative completion process.
• National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) entry, management, review and export.
• Insights & Reports presenting the incidents and member information.
• Visibility into your response, responders, apparatus and information.

• Automated tasks; reducing repetative administrative overhead.
• Integrations; integrations and webhooks to traditional and non-traditional Fire Department solutions.
• Dynamic Links; launch custom mobile applications, e.g. ArcGIS Collector, ArcGIS Field Maps.