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Fire Department Warehouse Asset Tracking... Do you have this system?
Well for those that have gotten to know me these past few months, I have now returned back to work and have been assigned to our Logistics Section which handles ordering and warehousing equipment and supplies. Currenly, we have no system in place for tracking things. I was curious as to how other departments keep track of their inventories and whether or not it is done by a simple spreadsheet approach or through a more sophisticated bar code reader system.
Any assistance you can offer me in the way of advise, warnings, vendor selection and how you do it would be appreciated. My department has basically 18 stations or work locations plus our HQ and warehouse. My thoughts here was that we could take a look at the stats from Firehouse, crunch some numbers and see the types and quanties of calls per station and do a better job predicting what we will be needing without waiting until critical mass occurs...
Speaking of critical mass... my daughter turned me on to some amazing photos from Hurricane Ike. Here's the link:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_lif...
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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We experienced some of this during Hurricane Floyd in the Pee Dee region of SC.
Some of it was due to "We don't have flood insurance, but we have fire insurance."
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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on
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Thanks Ted for responding. From what I can tell, only the really big departments like LAFD or LACoFD have departments large enough to house and warehouse equipment and supplies. Having 10,000 acre brush fires forces us to have... extra stuff.
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amazing... but weren't these photos on the link awesome?
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