How it works.

Four steps, then the call.

We already mapped your first due
Done before you sign up.
You tell us your SOGs
How your department runs a call. You answer once.
We apply them to every building
A pre-plan for every building, not only the target hazards.
You check what we flag
The flagged cards and a sample from each response area.

We already mapped your first due.

This is done before you sign up. Find your department and its page shows your own numbers.

Every building, with its type, its size and, where we have it, its height.
Life-risk sites: nursing homes, schools, hospitals, care homes and day cares.
Hydrants and water sources, where a county or water company has them on record.
Roads, and the route from your first-due station to each building.
Flood zones.

Every value says if it is estimated and the month its list is from. A list more than 2 years old gets a check flag.

Find your department

You tell us your SOGs.

Public records cannot tell us how you run a call, so your officers do, once.

Your stations, your rigs and the tank size on each one.
Your response areas and the run card for each one, whatever you call them: boxes, zones or grids.
Your water supply: the hydrant lay, how far you lay before you shuttle water, the shuttle with your tankers or tenders, fill sites, portable tanks, and your times.
The water need method you use: NFA, ISO or NFPA 1142.
Your mutual aid departments and the rigs they send.
Files you already have, like old pre-plans, hydrant lists or run card maps, in any shape: PDF, photo or spreadsheet.

One question per screen, on any device. It saves as you go, "Not sure" is always an answer, and you can come back later. Every question has a reason under it. The cards use your own words, like tanker or tender, and box or zone.

We apply your SOGs to every building.

A pre-plan for every building, not only the target hazards. The homes, the farms and the strip of stores get one too.

The water need for each building, by the method you picked.
With a hydrant in reach: the lay, the way your SOGs say to lay it.
With no hydrant in reach: the water shuttle. Where the portable tanks go, where the shuttle fills, the loop and its time, and how many tankers or tenders it needs, worked out with your own rigs.
The route in from your first-due station, and the length of the drive.
Life-risk flags, so the nursing home and the day care stand out.

The math is on every card, so your officers can follow it and fix what is off. Change an SOG later and every card that uses it is redone.

Water need starts from the NFA fire flow formula, and tanker travel times from ISO's formula. Or set your own numbers in setup, and every card follows them.

A sample card.

A real draft for a home with no hydrant in reach, with the address changed.

Home card · draft

418 Fenwick Rd

No hydrant in reach: tanker waterAsk for 1 more engineAsk for 3 more tankersNext building under 5 ft, D sideOwner has not answered yet

Water

Start on tankers, then switch to the Hartwell Canal draft near 377 Fenwick Rd.

Water need500 gpm

Dump tanksFenwick Rd at Cooper Rd

Supply line to Engine 1934 ft

Tankers fill athydrant at 1100-1198 Brindle Rd, 3.6 mi

Tanker loop / tankers for 500 gpm22.5 min / 5

Fixed supply: Hartwell Canal draft817 ft lay, 670 gpm

Hydrantsnone in 1.5 road mi

Show the math

Water need: 500 gpm
Floor area	1,350 sq ft × 2 floors	2,700 sq ftunverified
NFA	area ÷ 3 × 25%, + 25% for 2 sides with a building within 30 ft	350 gpm
Lowest flow	your setting, more than the method gives	500 gpm
Hydrant: hydrant at 5208 Cooper Rd
Lay to the house by road	you carry 1,000 ft	12,881 ft, too far
Tested flow	the water need is 500 gpm	500 gpm
Tanker loop: hydrant at 1100-1198 Brindle Rd
Fill	3,000 gal ÷ 1,000 gpm	3.0 min
Time at the fill		2.0 min
Drive there and back	2 × (0.65 + 1.7 × 3.6 mi)	13.5 min
Dump	3,000 gal ÷ 1,000 gpm	3.0 min
Time at the tanks		1.0 min
One loop		22.5 min
Each tanker brings	3,000 gal ÷ 22.5 min	133 gpm
Tankers	500 gpm ÷ 133 gpm = 3.8, round up, + 1 spare	5
Most this fill keeps up with	3,000 gal ÷ (3.0 + 2.0 min)	600 gpm
Best fill site instead	pond standpipe at 5120 Wexford Rd, 2.0 mi	18.2 min, 5 tankers
Tank site: Fenwick Rd at Cooper Rd
Supply line to Engine 1	you carry 1,000 ft, at least 150 ft out	934 ft
Cross road to turn around	within 50 ft	0 ft
Flat open ground	needs 1,200, 2,500 to pull in	7,525 sq ft
On the way in from Station 7		no
Next best site	Hartley Rd at Fenwick Rd	661 ft
Fixed supply: Hartwell Canal draft near 377 Fenwick Rd
Draft rate	5 in TurboDraft, 37 ft of hose, 10 ft lift	670 gpm
Lay to Engine 1	you carry 1,000 ft	817 ft
Alerts
Next building	alert under 10 ft	under 5 ft, D side
Tankers needed	first alarm brings 2	5
Drive	long over 300 ft	34 ft
Roof peak	tall over 35 ft	24 ft

Ask for on dispatch

1 more engine: next building under 5 ft, D side
3 more tankers: the plan needs 5, the first alarm brings 2

Access

From Station 73.0 road mi

Fronts Fenwick Rd (state road)drive 34 ftunverified

Access pagenot needed

Building

Conventional on 0.42 acre lot1,350 sq ft

Roof peak / eaves24 ft / 10 ft

Ground around the building5 ft fall

Constructionwood frameunverified

Stories2unverified

Outlinesplit from next doorunverified

Exposures

D side: houseunder 5 ft

B side: house19 ft

B side: house60 ft

D side: house67 ft

Flood zoneoutside the mapped zones

Canal237 ft

River826 ft

First minutesTruck takes the A side. Engine 1 pulls 85 ft past, toward the dump tanks, and goes to work on its tank.
TankersDump tanks at Fenwick Rd and Cooper Rd, 934 ft of supply line to Engine 1. Tankers fill at the hydrant at 1100-1198 Brindle Rd, 3.6 mi, and never pass the fire. 22.5 min loop, 5 tankers.
Fixed supplyEngine 2 stops at the Hartwell Canal draft near 377 Fenwick Rd (it passes it on the way in) and lays 817 ft to Engine 1. Then release the tankers.
Your setup fills at hydrants first. The pond standpipe at 5120 Wexford Rd would make the loop 18.2 min, with 5 tankers.
Next best place for the tanks: Hartley Rd at Fenwick Rd, 661 ft.

From the owner or your crew

Who lives here, anyone who needs help
Propane or oil tank
Pets
Generator or solar
Gas, electric and water shutoffs
Contact phone
Gate or lock box code
Overhead wires

Checks

10 of 11 automated checks pass. Your crew looks at this one:

look10. Next building gap measured: gap under 5 ft read from height data, not measured

Rev 1 draft · 10 of 11 checks pass · not reviewedFirePreplans

You check what we flag.

Automated checks run on every card first. Your officers look only at the cards a check flags, plus a sample from each response area, and then the chief signs off.

What the checks look at

The address sits on its lot.
The building and its height were found.
The road route and the drive were measured.
The water is in reach, and the tank site keeps every rule you set.
Every value says if it is estimated, and no list is more than 2 years old.

Each flag says what to look at, like a drive measured only as a straight line, or a gap to the next house that was read from the map and not measured.

Then your crews have it on the call.

Updated every month, on any device.

Phone, tablet or computerThe full card, or one column readable in the cab.
911 centerA short alert line to send with the dispatch.
Print, if you want itA book for a rig, or single pages, any time.
The ownerEvery card has an owner code. Show it on a call or at a fire prevention night, or mail it. The owner scans it and adds what only they know.

418 FENWICK RD | HOME | TRUCK TAKES A SIDE
NO HYDRANT. E1 PULL PAST, TANK WATER. TANKERS DUMP AT FENWICK RD AND COOPER RD, FILL AT THE BRINDLE RD HYDRANT 3.6 MI OUT. E2 HARTWELL CANAL DRAFT, LAY 817 FT.
ASK FOR 1 MORE ENGINE, 3 MORE TANKERS.
NEXT BUILDING UNDER 5 FT, D SIDE.

And a full export: the PDF book, a spreadsheet and the map files.

If you print.

The same card on paper, for the departments that still want a book on the rig: the water plan drawn to scale, and the first minutes in order.

Sample homeBinder page, printed for every rig

First minutes. Engine 1 pulls past and goes to work on its tank.
Tankers. Dump tanks at the cross road, 934 ft of supply line to Engine 1. 22.5 min loop, 5 tankers.
Fixed supply. Engine 2 stops at the Hartwell Canal draft and lays 817 ft to Engine 1. Then release the tankers.

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