Three CRAIG 1300™ Data Indicators to Help Reduce Risk in Your Community
by the mySidewalk Team on Jun 7, 2022 2:05:42 PM
Whether you're a city official or a public safety leader, your community is bound to have risks. In fact, most communities contain multiple dangers or hazards that can negatively affect its citizens. But there are also many ways to reduce potential problems and spot patterns. As Will …
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 …
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.
Fire Data Analytics: It Doesn’t Have to Be So Hard (Webinar)
by the mySidewalk Team on Sep 18, 2020 12:26:41 PM
You know how important it is to have the right fire data analytics, especially to attain and maintain your accredited status. But managing that data can be overwhelming and inaccessible. Most importantly, you don’t have time to figure it out. If that rings true, this webinar hosted by …
Monrovia, CA Is Reaching Fire and Rescue Goals with mySidewalk
by the mySidewalk Team on Aug 29, 2019 10:04:00 PM
What gets measured gets managed. With its roots dating to a small, all volunteer department founded in 1906 (later formalized as a City Department in 1910), Monrovia Fire & Rescue now serves the 36000+ residents of Monrovia, CA. Nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountain …
NFPA and mySidewalk to Develop Community Risk Assessment Tool
by Jennifer Funk on May 16, 2019 9:43:00 PM
May 16, 2019 - mySidewalk is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the leading information and knowledge resource on fire, electrical, and related hazards.