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Taking Creativity Home After an Event
May 23, 2022 3:45:00 PM
Taking Creativity Home After an Event
by Sara Wood on May 23, 2022 3:45:00 PM
Years ago, I’d hit a wall in the work I was doing with fire data. I wanted to create new applications, visualizations, and educational materials around fire safety, but I just couldn’t think of anything. I started researching ways to brainstorm more ideas and stumbled across Tina Seel …
Better data means bigger wins: Wauconda Fire District receives $1.2 million with the help of Fire Performance data
by Sara Wood on Dec 2, 2021 8:30:00 AM
Setting yourself apart from every other grant applicant is getting more and more difficult. Especially in the fire service industry. While data and hard numbers go a long way to make your case, community data offers another, deeper lens into the lives we work every day to protect.
CRAIG 1300™: User Stories Inspire Teams Nationwide to Leverage Data for Effective Community Risk Reduction
by Sara Wood on Nov 23, 2021 4:56:18 PM
CRAIG 1300™ has been a long time coming for both the industry and our partnership with NFPA. After nearly three years of research and development and pilot testing, we made sure that the insight generator would make real differences for community efforts toward risk reduction.
Four Ways Press™ Dashboards Can Help Launch Your Next Big Idea
by Sara Wood on Oct 7, 2021 4:35:45 PM
Initially, mySidewalk customers come to us with a pressing problem. Maybe two. And often, our suite of easy-access tools quickly provides a solution to those problems. Though, here's the thing– there is so much more that comes after those initial problems are solved. Consistently usin …
Meet CRAIG 1300™, Your CRA Insight Generator
by Sara Wood on Jul 22, 2021 2:35:26 PM
mySidewalk is excited to announce the launch of CRAIG 1300 in partnership with the National Fire Protection Association! Community Risk Reduction, or CRR, has continued to gain recognition in recent years as an effective approach to mitigating community risks; conducting a CRA that ut …
Fire Performance: Continuity in a Crisis
by Sara Wood on Mar 29, 2021 4:23:47 PM
For the more than 200 million Americans living in rural areas, one fire department might cover miles and miles of land. At the spike of COVID-19, EMS volume rose to levels never before seen while the effect of the virus on staffing left safety providers with a much-reduced ability to …
Fire Data: Having an RMS Isn't Enough
by Sara Wood on Jan 14, 2021 9:53:05 AM
Your fire department likely has a Record Management System (RMS). But it probably isn’t giving you the insights you need. This article explains why a standalone RMS isn’t enough, and why using a mySidewalk Fire Performance Dashboard as an RMS add-on will help you save more lives.