What can a site from FireCompanies.com do for your company?

FireCompanies.com gives the most features for your department’s web site in the industry.  Also to give your site a fresh look we redesign your site every two years. Click the links below to learn more!

In addition to all the features listed above enjoy lifetime archiving of all your news stories, also your sites is linked to all 300+ sites for maximum exposure. All the above features are included with the first due package.

Our Staffing Module will surely be one of our most popular modules. This will allow your members to login to update their availability status, from any computer with a internet connection. Members will update whether they are available as a diver, firefighter, officer, EMS, or fire police, also they will be able to add where they will be responding from, and for how long.

The status will be updated on your department's web site, this page will refresh every minute display the most up-to-date times and member availability. If you do not wish to have this viewed from the public site, no worries, you will be able to view from your members only site. For departments with multiple or substations, you will be able to create a staffing status page for each station.

Reporting will also be made available, this will allow your members to get points, or credit depending how many hours they have made themselves available. Another feature will be to alert when the "Station is staffed". Lets say for your station to be staffed you need 2 drivers, 2 officers, and 4 black hats, by going to the settings link you can determine what your stations needs, once all staffing requests have been meet, an icon will flash "Station is staffed". If at some point a members time has expired, a scrolling message will display what positions are needed.

Does your department have an active duty crew, bingo night, or fund raising schedule? They duty crew scheduler allows you to create crews and staffing events based on your department's needs. Members can view, print, or edit active duty assignments, depending on the permissions you decide.

With our easy to use you can create duty schedules with ease, our systems allows you to create custom assignments, and you can also setup up recurring assignments for each member or employee.

Sell advertising space on your web site, and manage the banners with our Banner Ad Manager. Once we determine where the banners will display on your site you can upload as many banners as you wish for each spot.

With the Banner Ad Manager you can determine the dates that the banner will appear, you can also limit the number of impressions (the number of times a banner will display).

You can also contract FireCompanies.com to design banners for potential advertising clients, then mark up the art fees to generate even more income.

You can add news stories to your site in a snap, with our proprietary content management system you can add images, links, documents to any news story. You can also decide how long a story can stay at the top spot of your web site, you can even set a date for the story to purge off of your site.

We can customize and add news fields per your request, so if you want add a field to display the OIC or responding apparatus to a call we have the ability to add these. Also if you need news to display to multiple locations of your site we can do this as well.

Visitors of your site can also email the story to their friends or print the story.

With our custom event calendar you are able to post events and dates for the public site or post private dates for your members only that will display only on your company intranet. We can create multiple event calendars, you can have a community calendar display on the home page of your site, while all of your training events can be displayed on a training page.

Content will be posted as a list view or calendar view on the web site

The stats manager allows for tracking of your fire, EMS, or your top ten responders. Need custom tracking? No problem, tell us what you would like to track.

If you have a rental hall at your firehouse, then the Hall Rental Manager is for you! This allows visitors to your site to see what days are available for rentals. If a day is open visitors are able to click the day, fill out a short form, once this is submitted it will tentatively block the date, a email will be sent to your hall manager’s email that you designate. From MyFireCompanies.com you can show the day booked, or make the day available again for renting.

We also have the option of disabling the form and only allowing your hall manager to book the date, just let us know what works the best.

The secure guest book allows visitors to your site to post comments or questions without posting to the web site until a company administrator reads and approves the post.

Also with our guest book you can reply back to any question a visitor may have, you can also post your response so that it will appear on the site, or send a private message back via email.

Second due clients can post up to 100 images, while first due clients can post unlimited! You can organize your images into your custom created albums, you can also customize your album cover and organize images within the album.

First due clients can also enjoy the image of the day feature, this will change the image each day at 24:00 hours, you can also schedule images to display on a certain date or change the current image instantly.

In addition to posting images all of the images from your news stories will post in their own album, if you do not want this feature just let us know and we can remove it. You can also customize the face (cover) of your albums.

In addition to being linked to ALL FireCopanies.com sites for maximum exposure and Google ranking you can also add and maintain your links page. You can create sections such as community links, fire safety links, or other fire departments.

To generate additional income with your web site we created the sponsor links module, this module allows you to proudly post a businesses name, logo, description and link to your web site.

Manage your member roster by creating member groups such as Fire Officers, Administrative Officers, or Active Members. You can add, move, or delete members instantly in the member roster.

When new members join you can create a account for them so they can access the members only area, you are able to maintain every aspect of the member accounts.

For departments with multiple firehouses we can create member rosters for each firehouse to display on the public site.

The private message board allows you to conduct company business, critique calls, or organize committee events from home. Your message board is private and for members only.

You can also view how many times your post has been viewed and who has viewed each posts.

You can now upload files to your web site for the public to download, post your applications, bingo specials, fire safety, or your map books for mutual aid companies to download. With our public download system you can create categories to organize your files, we can even create file downloads in different locations if you wish.

Space for downloads is unlimited, our system allows you to upload the following files .doc / .pdf / .xls / .ppt.

Once your member has access to MyFireCompanies.com they can update and maintain their own personal profile. Members have the ability to update their images and text.

The file locker works in the same fashion as public downloads, but are private to your members only.When members login to MyFireCompanies.com (the backend of your site) they can download SOGs response orders, apparatus maintenance checks.

Space for the file locker is unlimited, our system allows you to upload the following files: . doc / .pdf / .xls / .ppt.

Keep your community updated about events at the firehouse. With the newsletter feature visitors to your site can signup for your organization’s newsletters, newsletters can be sent your members only or the public.

The media center allows you to upload your videos from YouTube, to your video page, all videos are searchable and can be linked to a news story. Also you can track how many times a video has been viewed, videos can also be custom sorted as well.

The second part of the media center is the audio clip page, upload your clips to www.soundlantern.com and manage all of your audio clips. Audio can be linked to specific stories as well.

With a Paypal account you can create a “Donate Now” button to collect online donations. Once you do this simply create a support ticket and send us the code.

With our email solution we can create up to 100 email accounts for your organization, this is available for First and Second due clients. We assign your company administrators as the administrators for email, this will enable the administrators to create and manage member email accounts.

As a company administrator you can set different permission levels for company users. So for instance if you would like to have a member add news stories you can do so without the story posting until approved by a company administrator. All modules have customizable permissions allowing all members to help you update the web site.

The Keyword module allows you to create a special codename for your company, this will allow members to sign up for an account to the backend of your web site. Members can simply go to the login page of MyFireCompanies.com, click “request account”. Once a member has filled out all the necessary information an email will be sent to the member and administrator requesting approval.

After a company administrator has reviewed the request they can either deny the request or approve, if approved a email will be sent with a temporary password.

We have a full team of designers and programmers on staff for your request or technical issues.

First Due and Second Due clients are eligible to sell their shirts, hats, patches and stickers online. We require that your company must have a Paypal account so we can deposit funds when a item is sold, also a small inventory must be sent to us so that we are able to ship the orders. Product can be sent to:

FireCompanies.com
4 State Rd. #102
Media, PA 19063

Also FireCompanies.com will add $4 to the asking price of the shirts, and $2 for hats to cover credit card processing, stickers and patches will be sold at your asking price.

Through a special agreement between codeMESSAGING.net and FireCompanies.com, your site can easily be enabled with a powerful text messaging engine. Best of all, First Due clients receive this service with no monthly fees.

How does it work?

codeMESSAGING.net takes your existing mobile devices and joins them via a one-hundred thousand dollar state-of-the-art messaging network. By providing your mobile number, e-mail, or other information, codeMESSAGING.net is able to cycle through four separate and independent methods of sending messages to your device.

With no software to install, any web-enabled computer may connect directly to the codeMESSAGING.net network and send messages to hundreds of recipients within SECONDS.

After sending, all messages are continuously processed by four redundant systems until they are successfully sent. If any error or problem occurs during or after transmission, that error will be relayed back to you. All past sent and received messages are always available for review at a later time along with the respective status for each recipient.

codeMESSAGING.net uses DIRECT interfaces to mobile service providers to guarantee the safest, most secure, and quickest transmission of your messages. Using such protocols as WCTP, SNPP, SMPP, and Web-Gate interfaces means greater reliability than other protocols such as SMTP.

Expand your organizational alerting capabilities by taking advantage of your members current mobile phones and devices. Send and receive announcements now or schedule them in the future and guarantee they are received immediately. Automatically route your local dispatch center or other third-party message to any mobile device to ensure you receive critical information exactly where you need it.

With CodeMessaging.net, you can send messages securely and privately from any computer or e-mail capable device. Furthermore, there is no need to install any software as the entire service is kept on web-accessible servers and is accessible with any web browser saving you time and avoiding hassles with local installations. Take your employee scheduling to the next level with CodeScheduling.net's custom web-accessible solutions. By allowing your employees to login securely and enter their availability or submit schedule change requests, you are saved the time and hassle of managing it directly. Utilizing the customizable rule-sets of CodeScheduling.net, you can define shift priority and assignments based on employee qualifications, hours worked, or other special requests. These rule-sets are automatically engaged anytime a change is made or requested to the schedule so the employee immediately knows their status. Even leverage CodeMessaging.net by having last minute shift openings or call-outs be automatically paged to the available employees for immediate notification. Best of all, you and your employees can access CodeScheduling.net from any web browser anytime of day to review the schedule, submit availability, or request changes..

From the creators of codeMessaging comes codeDispatching, not available in all counties, but codeDispatching allows your dispatches to stream to your cell phone, pager, or web site. Please contact us to see if we are in your area, if not, help us help you.

*Included with First Due package
** Requires onetime setup fee of $150
***Monthly fee applies.