Fire Brigade Incident Platform

Summary

We made a web application that makes the creation of incident plans fast and easy. It is possible to create, review and publish created plans, to make them available for incidents that the fire brigade is responsible for.

Key terms

Project goal

Incident plans are standardised documents that describe important characteristics of a site or a building like access ways, who to alert, information about animals or chemicals etc. The Fire Brigade Rohrdorf currently creates incident plans manually with Power Point and Word. This makes the process tedious and slow. Our solution aims to improve the management of incident plans by providing a central application that is easy to use, so that everyone involved can fulfill the tasks. The Incident Management Platform is developed in strong collaboration with the client to ensure that the Fire Brigade has a tool that fits their needs.

Initial situation

The fire brigade Rohrdorf currently maintains incident plans as a set of documents in a folder. The standards of the plan-format defined by the municipality are followed with a template. Action- or access-maps are drawn on screenshots and included in the file. Map screenshots are usually taken from AGIS, the map API of the Kanton Aargau. After creation, a plan gets printed out and circulates among different entities for review and acceptance. Finally it is copied and physically stored in multiple locations - one in every fire truck, one in the command post etc.

Benefits of our solution

The Incident Management Platform drastically reduces the tools involved in the creation and distribution of incident plans. Instead of Power Point or Word, the customer follows a step-by-step process in the application to fill out all required sections of an incident plan. Action maps can be drawn with the integrated map editor that uses official maps from the Swiss GeoAdmin-API. If needed, it is possible to upload and integrate third-party maps. For example site-specific architectural maps of a building can be used as a base layer for drawing. The review process is governed by the application too. A plan document can be versioned and passes through multiple states to ensure a transparent workflow. The whole incident plans repository is easy accessible from a database with search and filter functionality. And exporting incident plans as PDFs is now just a matter of clicking a download button. All information is layouted in the plan-format defined by the municipality and ready to be distributed to the fire trucks.

Results

Core features implemented

Project data

Client

Feuerwehr Rohrdorf

Telephone: 118 (Or for a cheaper talk: Tel: +41 56 496 24 34 ¦ Fax: +41 56 496 25 94)

E-mail: kommando@feuerwehr-rohrdorf.ch

Adress:

     Feuerwehr Rohrdorf

     Feuerwehrlokal

     Holzrütistrasse

     5443 Niederrohrdorf

Homepage:

Feuerwehr Rohrdorf auf lodur

Project team

Agile Coach

Silvan Zurbrügg

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