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FireQ Quiet Response
Sometimes, lights and sirens are not are not the best response. Sometimes firefighters need a quiet response. Sometimes they need increased incident control. There is a uniqueness to the volunteer
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How FireQ Helps with Pre-Incident Plans
Pre-incident plans can be created in the FireQ software and firefighters can access them from the FireQ app. Pre-plans help firefighters effectively and efficiently handle the situation.
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Why is “Fire Department Management” Making Firefighters Grumpy & What FireQ is Doing About It
Firefighters are routinely being asked to do more less and often without thanks. Increasing administrative burdens are making them feel grumpy and unappreciated. Learn how FireQ is taking some of the grumpy out of paperwork.
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What is FireQ? Not Like Everyone Else
FireQ is an all-in-one solution that is different from most other products currently on the market.
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Selecting Fire Department Software
This administrative burden of fire department management is growing, particularly for community-based fire departments that are often staffed by volunteers and lack the budget to use many of the available records management software.
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Firefighters Need Pagers & PageQ
Sometimes pagers get a bad rap. They are limited in range. They provide one-way communication only. They are often considered to be old technology.
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Benchmarking Measuring Success
Your FireQ system now contains benchmarking to help firefighters assess and record the situational points on the fireground.
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The FireQ Difference
FireQ is an all-in-one solution that is different from most other products currently on the market.
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Dispatch: All the Ways to Get Those Alerts
Every firefighter knows the frustration of pager limitations and the challenges of getting emergency dispatch alerts
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New FireQ Feature Responders on the Map & More
Technologically speaking, few things engage firefighters like mapping and the information those maps can provide.
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The FireQ App for iPhone Just Keeps Getting Better and Better
Wondering how it could get any better? The latest release for iPhone includes some juicy new features, so hold onto your hat
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Communicating Comfort with CareQ in the Second Wave
The second wave is here. Covid cases, along with stress and worry, are rising again. In those worries, however, there is a paper-thin sliver of a silver lining.
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Why It Is Not Enough Just to Make Safety Pre-plans
Creating safety pre-plans is a powerful tool in the public safety toolbox. Ensuring firefighters have quick and ready access to them is equally important.
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Hand Gestures to Maximize your Mapping Experience
FireQ mapping features provide potent information to firefighters. Knowing more about gesture controls will help you to get more out of the maps on the FireQ app.
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Flu Season and Family Communication for Long-Term Care Facilities
Long before Covid-19, the month of October would have long-term care facilities managing multiple building closures due to influenza.
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Records Management for the Community Fire Department Part 1:
FireQ is the Complete Solution Fire Departments Need and Deserve
This administrative burden of fire department management is growing, particularly for community-based fire departments that are often staffed by volunteers and lack the budget to use many of the available records management software.
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The Dollars and “Sense” of CareQ
Emergency communication systems, like CareQ, make communication with staff and families faster and more efficient. A single message can be sent to unlimited recipients simultaneously.
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Getting Creative with CareQ and Pandemic Communications
At a time when their duties were increasing and the most common tasks took much longer to perform, staff in long-term care facilities dug a little deeper and found a little more to give.
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Fire Department Pre-plan Software,
Pre-plans in the Palm of Your Hand
FireQ allows firefighters to upload pre-plans to the FireQ fire department pre plan software, so that they are always visible and available to firefighters.
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FIRS & FireQ – New Brunswick Fire Incident Reporting System Integration
In New Brunswick, fire departments are legislatively required to complete an incident report for each emergency to which they respond.
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Long-Term Care Facility Weekly Update PDF Template
Use this free template to communicate updates both internally and externally.
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How You Can Use Your FireQ During the Covid-19 Pandemic
These are challenging times. The communities you protect are self-isolating and practicing physical distancing. Many people who count on the fire service, as well as many firefighters themselves, are feeling stressed and disconnected.
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Pandemic Planning and Preparedness for Long-Term Care
As people across Canada attempt to navigate the Covid-19 maze, provincial health authorities moved to the increase protections for the vulnerable residents living in long-term care.
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Construction Safety and Communications
Edward is a construction supervisor for a large construction company in Central and Eastern Canada that specializes in all areas of heavy civil construction, with an uncompromising commitment to health and safety.
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