Fire Data Management News & Articles

• 3 things your fire department can do to lessen our country’s data problems

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  Focus on the “why,” make it personal and bring the reporting under one system

• On-Demand Webinar: How to craft a data-driven budget proposal to improve your agency

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  Facts are your friends when it comes to making the case for more money

• The life-saving role of statistics in the fire service

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  Data analysis pinpoints at-risk populations that can be targeted for CRR strategies – if your department has the bandwidth

• ‘What if …?’ Key questions to help quantify your fire department’s needs

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  Fire service leaders must focus on data, not emotion, when make their case for funding, staffing and more

• ‘You are not what you say you are; you are what your data says you are’

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  Four strategies to help fire service leaders focus on technology that is truly “smart”

• Cyberattackers are coming for public safety; prepare now

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  Organizations and citizens have a “shared responsibility” to defend their data, computer hardware and software systems from ransomware attacks

• 4 data points that all fire chiefs should know

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  Chiefs should be knowledgeable about key community risks and operational deployment data

• 6 more data points that all fire chiefs should know

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  Glean key decision-making insights from data based on budget, CAD, incident types, geolocation, weather and policies

• Colo. FD wins grant to buy data transmission device for cardiac monitors

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  The device's software will allow the Pueblo West Fire Department to transmit heart rhythm data securely to the ER

• 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

• 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

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