APX Blog

Less than 1% of Fire Departments are part of the ISO 1 Class, but how can a department achieve this and maintain it? It’s easier than ever to implement the latest tools to stay ahead of the curve and keep your community and team safer.

Firefighting has come a long way in the last 30 years and standards are the main reason why risk and liability have been reduced; we all know and often take it for granted and if anyone ever questions about standards and compliance, your Fire Department must take notice.

When municipal budgets are being slashed, while Fire Departments increase their risks, their services are in high demand (and growing), being proactive and modernizing is the only way to go to protect your community, and avoid deadly fires with extraordinary costs.

Remote data collection is a strategy that many APX Customers have successfully used while limiting time spent in public space, to not only drive efficiency—a valuable thing with a reduced staff—but to create and update pre-plans when site visits are limited/not possible.

As a Fire Captain with a large Fire Department in Los Angeles, I understand the time savings and efficiency of having the right software has a direct effect on the outcomes of emergency calls.

The Traditional pre-incident & inspection planning process was cumbersome, time-consuming, and unreliable – so much so that many Fire Departments have struggled to meet the standard.