Using Incident Command Technology to Improve Fire Operations

How Does Your Incident Command System Benefit Your Department?

Does your department use the traditional whiteboard and checklist as part of your incident command, or do you use a digital incident command system? In this paper, you’ll learn about the significant benefits of moving to digital incident command, but also some things to consider that could hinder the use of digital technology.

You’ll learn about:
•    Department Resource Tracking: How digital command systems, like Tablet Command, provide department resource tracking to know where your apparatus and closest resources are.
•    Improve fireground and department-wide communications: How they allow everyone in the department to stay apprised of in-progress incidents. 
•    Increase firefighter situational awareness: How they get crews moving from their stations 30-60 seconds before they’re toned out, and on the way to the scene, let them pull up hydrant maps and pre-plans for a building, making them more aware of their resources and the structure once they arrive on scene. 
•    Prevent Firefighter Line-of-duty deaths: Through a digital platform’s built-in tools, they address the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health's five most common reasons for firefighter line-of-duty deaths (“NIOSH Five”).

Read on to learn more about the valuable tools that can benefit your department, improve your incident command and save your firefighters’ lives.