Do your volunteers check in before coming to the station?

When arriving at the station for a non emergency call like EMT assist or car unlock You never know how many FF's or FF/EMT's are en route to the station especially since we live In a rural area making travel time for some 10-15 min. I have a background in computers and programming and thought about suggesting a texting solution to let those at the station know who is en route so we can wait for ranking or EMT certified personell but I wasnt sure if this was even a viable solution. Right now the solution is call the vollies who are most likeley there and let them know, but sometimes we are already out by the time they call. How, if any do your vollies check in when heading up to the station? Any thoughts about solutions to this frustrating problem?

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Permalink Reply by Steven on June 16, 2013 at 12:34am

I know. My iPhone is passcode protected and it's not that simple to dial out. I was probably using it longer than most on our department. It's a county thing and we got on board because of the county initiative but it just didn't work out for us as a useful tool, not in the ways we thought it would. I know other departments that use it religiously and the county dispatch uses it to inform chief on scene what's coming in, but we don't use county dispatch either. Its a great tool and I would recommend it for any department, it just doesn't fit our system and our system works well enough now without a major change to incorporate it effectively.