Fire Data Management News & Articles

• On-Demand Webinar: Collecting the facts about fire byproduct exposure, mental health concerns and risks in your department

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  Learn how data on cancer exposures and decontamination protects your firefighters

• COVID-19: How public safety companies are assisting the frontline pandemic response

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  The businesses that equip and serve first responders are supporting the national emergency response with new products, free services and donations

• Winter is coming: COVID-19 and a rational path forward

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  Data points to evaluate at your agency as we move into a new phase of COVID-19 response

• Fire service data: How to employ 2 kinds of data for effective problem-solving

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  Gathering data for inspection and data for learning must be seen as a positive tool rather than as a way of potentially punishing someone

• ‘Be rigorous but not ruthless’: 6 strategies for new chiefs

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  Words of wisdom to help avoid those common pitfalls of taking on a leadership role, aka entering the ‘minefield’

• 9 key questions you must be able to answer during budget negotiations

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  People expect more than an impassioned plea; they want data-driven details

• 4 ways to tap the potential of data and use it to improve community health and safety

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  Your agency’s data can help inform local decision-making, mitigate risk, improve firefighter safety and show the impact you are making

• Evidence-based pandemic leadership

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  Tracking COVID-19 cases, PPE supply and ambulance turnaround times to inform EMS response

• Everything your department needs to know about buying fire records management software: A guide

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  Learn about the 5 key points decision-makers should consider before the purchase

• COVID-19 is changing everything. Here's what that means for motor vehicle collisions

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  Motor vehicle collisions might be down nearly 50%, but don’t let down your guard on the roadway or neglect your extrication skills or training

• On-Demand Webinar: Here's how you can use video chat and data sharing tools from Carbyne911 to reduce traffic to health centers

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  These new mitigation strategies help protect vulnerable people and prevent overwhelmed hospitals

• On-Demand Webinar: Gaining situational awareness and sharing information using digitally-enabled 911 services with NGA911

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  Learn how next-generation 911 will help responders navigate COVID-19

• On-Demand Webinar: How to capture actionable COVID-19 data for staffing and reimbursement

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  Documenting COVID-19 exposures with Mark43 can help command staff strategically deploy limited resources

• IAFC webinar Quick Take: COVID-19 and mental health

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  Presenters offered solutions to the complex situations brought on by the pandemic, including mental health concerns, operational organization and documentation

• Quick Take: Education, data reporting key to strengthening overwhelmed public health safety net

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  Fire and EMS leaders gather with the Center for Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends to discuss the path ahead for public safety

• Q&A: Data-driven EMS staffing for COVID-19

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  Leaders from Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service and Snohomish County Fire District detail how they’re monitoring the COVID-19 surge and preparing for the worst-case scenario

• Data company says current rate of COVID-19 N95 usage is ‘unsustainable’

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  The company recommended the use of surgical masks for lower risk calls in order to preserve the supply of respirators

• 7 data visualizations that explain COVID-19

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  Interactive maps, infection projections and your own PCR data illustrate how serious the COVID-19 pandemic is in your response area

• How Southern Manatee Fire Rescue embraced new drone technology for hazmat response

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  Using drones to exchange real-time information has never been easier for this rescue team

• Webinar: What’s 5G? What every first responder needs to know about the new cellular network

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  Join the discussion on how the 5G mobile technology network will have huge implications for public safety

• Using data to map your emergency services community response

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  Data mapping can identify hot spots, road closures and public health concerns in real time, and allow for resource deployment planning and training

• ESO announces partnership with NarcBox to help agencies manage narcotics

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  The collaboration will provide agencies a streamlined way of managing and tracking narcotic distribution

• ePCR connected care: patient evaluation across the care continuum

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  Making data-driven fire-based EMS decisions to improve efficacy of treatments in a financially reimbursable model

• Motorola Solutions launches devices and software equipped with mission-critical technology

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  The products are designed to work together to improve command center operations

• Q&A: Using physiological data to enhance firefighter safety

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  Improving firefighter safety and survival through science, medicine and technology

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