How to create a master fire plan using Premergency.

The expert guide for simple and fast strategic planning.

In order to guarantee the safety of their citizens, cities and municipalities must dispose of an efficiently working fire department. To ensure the department’s functionality they create a master fire plan. However, this task has proven itself to be quite difficult for many municipalities, due to complex analyses and evaluations. This is why it was especially important to us to focus a problem-centered approach when developing Premergency. Our goal was to help people and master the challenge of strategic planning.

In this article we show you how to create a master fire plan using Premergency and how to simplify your processes.

Strategic planning/Master fire plan

As mentioned before, a master fire plan ensures your fire department’s efficiency. Thus, it evaluates the department’s performance, based on a local hazard analysis. The results are subsequently compared to the unit’s performance in past missions. Based on that, you determine so-called protection goals, which define requirements necessary for the protection of the local population. With the help of your master fire plan you can make a clear point on your fire department’s demand or required improvements, when talking to political institutions.

The service area – local factors of influence

Creating a master fire plan is a local task. This is undoubtedly reasonable, as a big amount of a fire department’s demand is highly dependent on the specific characteristics of its service area. In order to analyze your service area, the following parameters have to be taken into account amongst others: number of inhabitants, building structure, extinguishing water supply, traffic, etc. (Zawadke 2018).

Gathering and analyzing this data can already lead to some difficulties, due to the huge amounts of data, which are required, especially in geographically large service areas. Gathering and analyzing this data within long Excel spreadsheets, can become quite confusing. This is why we have developed Premergency as an intelligent data platform, in which you can collect all important information regarding your service area. Based on your individual data, you can create extensive visual location analysis using Premergency.

Analyse der Standortabdeckung

With the help of this map-based feature you easily identify, where which measure have to be pursued. Furthermore, you carry out simulations, which provide insight on how adding or removing a fire station influences coverage. Based on that you derive analysis for your master fire plan. Furthermore, you can easily export these visualizations with only a few mouse clicks. These high-resolution graphics are ideal for presenting master fire plan to political bodies.

Personnel and apparatus

For an efficient and future-proof mission and strategic planning, it is extremely important to have a detailed overview of your personnel and your apparatus at any time. For this purpose, you import existing data of deployments and personnel into Premergency. Subsenquently the domiciles and availabilty of your team members are visualized on an interactive risk map of your service area. What is more, our software supports you with carrying out extensive and scenario-based hazard analysis. This way, you always know how many team members and which equipment is available, so that you can plan accordingly.

With data into a secure future

In the preceding paragraphs you have learned, which data is especially important for strategic planning and how Premergency can help you gather and display this data in a clear way. However, the crucial step of strategic planning lies within using this data to derive analyses an insights for the future.

Instead of tedious evaluations of old paperwork and Excel files or complex calculations, only a few clicks are required for an extensive hazard analysis with our analytics platform Premergency.

To sum things up, the smart data platform Premergency helps you gather all the necessary data required for strategic planning. Based on this data, you rapidly carry out all analyses for your master fire plan.

Additionally, Premergency does not let you down even after having successfully created a pre-plan, as the software allows you to constantly observe every inch of your service area. This way, you monitor emergency response deadlines, identify risk hotspots and receive a detailed overview of personnel, equipment and availability of extinguishing water.

The situation under control. Today for Tomorrow.

In this article, we have given you a short introduction on how to create a pre-plan with Premergency. Developing our smart analytics platform, our goal was to support fire departments on every level. Therefore, in addition to our software, we offer extensive consulting services as well as workshops, in which we show you how to improve your strategic planning using Premergency.

Do you have any further questions or suggestions. Contact us! We are more than happy to help you.