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Ten Useful Apps for
Firefighters
A White Paper by Emergency Reporting
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Ten Useful Apps for Firefighters
1. Cargo Decoder
Price: $0.99
Handy and searchable reference to the 2012 Emergency Response
Guides. Excellent for looking up placard DOT codes. Simply enter the
4 digit number from the DOT placard to learn about a material or use
Voice Search to make the searches even faster.
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Find safety information on hazardous cargo
Search by name or input DOT number
View ERG2012 and ERG2008 reference pages
Access directly on device, no network connection required
Share information with friends and colleagues
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Ten Useful Apps for Firefighters
2. Extricate
Price: Free
Great reference when cutting through hybrid cars during extrication.
The guide provides clear, intuitive, zoomable schematics, and show
the location of air bags, high voltage electrical lines, fuel, pistons, and
seatbelt pretensions.
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Hybrid Auto Extrication guide features hundreds of car models
Shows location of various car mechanics
Interactive zoom capabilities
Access directly on device, no network connection required
Pinpoints areas to safely make cuts
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3. Wiser
Price: Free
Hazmat reference especially designed to assist first responders in
hazardous material incidents. Developed by the National Library of
Medicine, Wiser can quickly provide the user with a comprehensive
database of information on hazardous substances, how to identify them,
their characteristics, their effect on health, and identifying symptoms.
Useful Tools and Best Features:
• Rapid access to the most important information about a hazardous
substance by an intelligent synopsis engine
• GIS support provides for isolation/protective distance overlays on a map
of the incident
• Once the substance is identified, guidance on immediate actions
necessary to save lives and protect the environment
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4. Scanner911
Price: $2.99
Allows you to listen live to police, firefighter, EMS, air traffic control,
and railroad scanner radio bands. Features the ability to listen to your
station in the background, rewind/record stations and follow along
with police codes.
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Listen in to your town or others in the US, Canada and Australia
Has Instant Replay; tap to rewind and hear it again
Scanner name search
Edit, upload, email, and tweet recordings
Follow the action with a handy code chart
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5. 911 Toolkit
Price: $7.99
The perfect pocket reference for hydraulics, water delivery, incident
response checklists, EMS, training/study guides, and hazmat. Comes
with thousands of flashcards in numerous categories. Great way to
study up for promotional tests!
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Interactive flash cards with multiple choice questions
30 chapters, 500+ questions specifically for firefighters
Customize calculations by entering friction loss coefficients
Loaded with interactive placards, diagrams and visual guides
Constantly updated to stay relevant
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6. HazRef 2008
Price: $3.99
The pocket version of the ERG enables you to search a portable
database of nearly 3,000 hazardous materials as identified by the United
States Code of Federal Regulations. The entire database resides on your
phone meaning no network is required to access any of these features.
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No network needed to access any of the guides
Placards and emergency contacts by region
Quickly search through different materials/placards/guides
Visual database of DOT placards organized by hazard class
Browse by name, UN number or hazard class
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7. eMedic
Price: $19.99
Excellent field guide for medical professionals. These days the first
responder needs much more than just fire training to get by. eMedic
is a wealth of knowledge with everything from calculators for blood
pressure to blood alcohol, algorithms, medication summaries,
treatments for every type of emergency and anatomy diagrams.
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175 anatomical labeled items in more than two dozen illustrations.
Provides an easy method to navigate complex medical algorithms
Summaries of most prescribed emergency medicines
Calculators for Apgar, Blood Alcohol, BP Estimator, Burn Area,
Conversion, Dosages, Drip Rates, ETT Size, Eye Assessment, etc.
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Ten Useful Apps for Firefighters
8. Flashover
Price: $1.99
Great calculation tool for figuring out discharge pressure for fire
fighting pumps. Uses specific hose diameters and length, gallons per
minute and nozzle pressure to figure friction loss and provides pump
discharge pressure.
Useful Tools and Best Features:
• Results are calculated for you
• Save and compare numerous results at one time
• Create complex hose arrangements using larger hoses to feed up to
three lines at once
• Accurate friction loss coefficients
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9. Knot Guide
Price: Free
Great for reminders on how to tie complex knots. Features more than
100 different types of knots.
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Original, clear, colorful photographs
Swipe the images to move through the visual steps
Save your favorite knots for easy access
Browse search by category or knot name
“Knot Lingo” screen covers basic terms for knot tying
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10. Convert Pad
Price: Free*
Perfect for converting different measures on the fly. Features fast, real
time currency and unit conversion in a clean interface.
*$1.99 for iOS
Useful Tools and Best Features:
• Handles over 120 conversion calculations for length, area, volume,
fluid, weight, time, computer, and temperature
• Simple interface for entering the measurement
• Calculates the conversion with a few simple clicks
• Basic calculator functions, add, subtract, divide, and multiply
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Bonus: Occupancy
Price: $9.99
Allows users to manage Occupancy data in the field. Created to work
in sync with the Emergency Reporting system, the app allows realtime editing, saving and photo upload to system records.
Useful Tools and Best Features:
• Update building name and category information on the fly
• Record pre-fire data such as building construction type and
occupancy load.
• Take and store digital pictures
• User-defined categories, forms and settings to fit an individual
department’s procedures.
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Ten Useful Apps for Firefighters
About Emergency Reporting
Emergency Reporting is a web-based provider of fire & EMS reporting
and records management software that supports more than 75,000
users world-wide including many Department of Defense agencies.
The Emergency Reporting system is powerful and easy to use. This
affordable system is web-based so your data is always mobile -- login
online via a secure connection from any device. Additionally, the
system is able to generate hundreds of pre-made reports and allows
users to customize their own reports based on funneling various
criteria.
Emergency Reporting provides automatic database backup, seamless
system updates and world-class support. Allowing unlimited
concurrent users means that our customers never have to worry about
seat licenses or other hidden fees.
Emergency Reporting was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in
Bellingham, WA.
www.emergencyreporting.com
851 Coho Way, Suite 301 | Bellingham, WA 98225
P: 866-773-7678