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DFD Partners with Active 911

Thursday, July 2, 2015

In February, after initial training at the Company meeting, the Dover Fire Department will make great strides forward in their district mapping program with the introduction of Active 911. The system is a digital messaging system that delivers alarms, maps, and other critical information instantly to first responders. Active911 also allows response efforts to be monitored in real time. The system will be installed on 10 new iPad Air’s bought by the department through equipment upgrade funds. The system allows map overlays on top of Google maps that have the hydrant locations, the rating of the hydrant (how much water we can expect from it) fire department connections on commercial buildings and Knox box (locked key boxes) locations. The system also monitors firefighters responding into the station and plots out the quickest route for responding apparatus. Prior to this system, the department was utilizing two 8” thick map books. With the introduction of new neighborhoods and expanding properties, updating them was becoming expensive and more cumbersome to use. With the Active 911 program, department wide updates are a mouse click away.