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Fire readiness, from the pump panel to the training night.

Seven films at one brigade: a career station at Port Ellery with rostered seats, and a volunteer brigade at Banksia Ridge whose crews come from current members. Appliances, equipment, a house fire and a strike team, then drill nights and the skills matrix. The crew’s phone and the dashboard play together, chapter by chapter.

Film 5 of 7: The matrix and the board

Two BA wearers lapse at midnight under the brigade’s own practice rule, and BR11 can no longer be crewed. A session planned from the matrix restores them, and both training packs carry a SHA-256.

In this filmThe matrix and the board

Two BA wearers’ practice runs out at midnight, so a tanker cannot be crewed. Watch the board go Reduced, and one training night restore it.

Monday: the matrix
Midnight: two lapse
The board goes Reduced
A BA session from the matrix
Thursday restores them
Two packs, two fingerprints
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Two BA wearers’ practice runs out at midnight, so a tanker cannot be crewed. Watch the board go Reduced, and one training night restore it.

  1. Monday: the matrix. Monday 2 November. Captain Ros Delaney opens Banksia Ridge’s skills matrix, filtered to the skills BR11’s seats need. BA wearer: three current against the brigade’s minimum of two. But Sam Iqbal and Will Tran show Practice short. The brigade’s rule is two wears under air in six months. Their older wear, from 3 May, drops out at midnight.
  2. Midnight: two lapse. Tuesday 3 November, 00:00. Both drop to one wear in six months. The matrix shows them Lapsed: practice short. Officers were warned: an alert at 14 days, and at 7 days that the station would fall below its minimum. Will was on the pump panel at the last BA night; Sam sent an apology. The records say so, and judge neither.
  3. The board goes Reduced. The same minute, Banksia Ridge goes Reduced. BR11 cannot be crewed from current members: 1 BA wearer current of 2 needed. The cause says why in plain words: 2 BA wearers lapsed, practice short. Tankers 1 of 2. 07:10. Ros acknowledges: a BA session for Sam and Will on Thursday, the group officer advised.
  4. A BA session from the matrix. From the matrix, Ros adds a one-off session: BA wear under air, Thursday 19:00, with Jo Marsh as lead trainer. It practises BA wearer, so it credits those who wear once it is signed closed. Escudo sends no SMS or page. It shows on Sam’s phone under Coming up, with Practising: BA wearer, beside his skill marked Lapsed.
  5. Thursday restores them. Thursday 5 November. Sam and Will wear under air in the smoke trailer. Jo records minutes and pressures for each. At 20:55 Jo signs the session closed. Practice is credited at the close, so each now has two wears in six months. BR11 can be crewed again. Banksia Ridge is Ready, and the change closes after 2 days 20 hours Reduced.
  6. Two packs, two fingerprints. Will can open his own training pack from My training. Ros opens it for the brigade’s file: skills, records, sessions and hours. Each record names who recorded it and on what basis: assessment or practice. Escudo assesses nobody. The station pack shows depth against minimums, the lapse and the restoration. Each pack’s data hashes to its printed SHA-256.

Illustrated from the real crew app and dashboard, with fire and rescue switched on. Corrigan Vale uses the brigade’s own rule pack: station plans, crew numbers, limits, intervals, pars, test points and skill currency rules are set by each brigade, and the BA practice rule shown, two wears under air in six months, is the brigade’s own, not a published one. The board shows readiness by the brigade’s own records; it is not live availability. Escudo Emergency does not deliver, assess or certify training, and holds no health, fitness or exposure record, date of birth or USI. Alerts appear in the dashboard. The organisation, people, stations, appliances, certificates and numbers are invented.

Options and solutions

Everything fire and rescue brings, in one place.

An organisation’s administrator switches fire and rescue on in Settings, or at sign-up. Every Escudo Emergency check keeps working alongside it, including the 56 starter templates for fire and rescue.

What the Fire Ready board counts

AppliancesAppliances by role on run and counted against the station plan, the scarcest role first.
Pump and aerial testsFitted pumps, aerials, ground ladders and hose in date by the records.
BA and gasBreathing apparatus sets, cylinders, gas detectors and the compressor in date by the records.
Rescue toolsRescue tools, power equipment, thermal imaging cameras and specialist kits in date by the records.
Crew and skillsSeats filled by people current in the skills, credentials and licence class each needs, and skill depth against your minimums.
Stock and foamAdvisory: foam, absorbent, spare cylinders, water and rations against the par you set.
StationAdvisory: the station’s own checks in their cadence, and its alerting test.

Each station

Against the plan you set for the shift, or all week for a volunteer brigade. Advisory lanes never take a station past Reduced.

  • Ready (from records)
  • Reduced
  • Not ready
  • Not set

Each appliance

Restricted or off run by its defects and checks; limited by stowed items out of date; held until an officer signs the clean.

  • Available
  • Available (limited)
  • Not available
  • Deployed
  • Held (decontamination)
  • Relief or spare

Its crew

Rostered stations sign people on to seats. Volunteer brigades read whether the seats could be crewed from current members: never live availability.

  • Crewed
  • Can be crewed
  • Cannot be crewed
  • Seats not set

Each member’s skill

Worked out from the brigade’s own currency rule, practice in the window and the assessor’s latest result.

  • Current
  • Due soon
  • Practice short
  • Lapsed
  • Not yet competent
  • In training
  • Waived
  • Not held

Changes not acknowledged go to fleet managers after 15 minutes and to org admins after 60, unless the rule pack sets other times. An expired aerial inspection restricts its appliance by a system defect; a decontamination hold keeps an appliance off run until an officer signs the clean; other test dates feed the lanes unless the brigade opts a regime in.

What the phone records

With or without signal. Every record carries an id made on the phone, so a resend never counts twice.

  • Checks and walkarounds on each appliance, with photos stamped on the live camera
  • Seat sign-on at rostered stations, with “Current for this seat” or why not
  • An item by its label: user checks, bump tests, a BA set used or ready
  • Needs decontamination on an appliance or an item, and the officer’s signed clean
  • Coats bagged for the laundry, back from it, and clean sets issued
  • My training: skills with their countdowns, sessions, apologies and my code
  • The trainer’s night: roll call, codes scanned, skills practised with minutes and notes, results, task books, photos and the signed close
  • Add a course with a photo of the certificate, counted once an officer has sighted it

Training, the brigade’s own records

Skills in the brigade’s words with reference units, currency by its own rule (months, a season, or practised a number of times or minutes in a window), drill night series, attendance, assessors’ results, recruit programmes, external courses sighted by an officer, juniors and members across stations.

Depth against your minimums feeds the Crew and skills lane, so a lapse at midnight changes the board the same minute.

Fire ReadyEach station’s tile, seven lanes with skill depth, each appliance with its state, crew and seats, open changes to acknowledge, shift-start snapshots and 30 days of history.
Fire setupRule packs, rostered or members crewing, station plans and planned reductions, appliance roles, classes, seats and capabilities, stock and skill depth minimums.
Equipment and certificatesRegisters by lane, the certificates your testers wrote, regimes with an opt-in restriction, holds, and tests coming due by month.
Strike teams and mutual aidDeployments with crews and roles, departure, make-up and decontamination checks, and a planned reduction at the home station.
PPE and laundryGarments with owner, size and retirement date, what is at the laundry and for how long, and what retires in 90 days.
Pre-season and insightsThe season start you set, the pre-season audit, the yearly return as a CSV, hours reduced by cause and tests coming due.
TrainingThe calendar and drill night series, sessions with attendance and results, the skills matrix, skills and currency, members and programmes.
PacksThe appliance pack, the member’s and the station’s training packs and the fire readiness pack, each with the SHA-256 of its data.

What Escudo Emergency never does

Records only. Escudo Emergency keeps the records, works out the board and reminds people. Assessment, training delivery, paging and dispatch stay with your brigade and its systems. More on fire and rescue.

  • Certify a firefighter, an appliance, a pump, an aerial, a cylinder or a set: certificates are the testers’ own, recorded as written
  • Say anyone is qualified, competent or trained in its own voice: results are the assessor’s, with their name and basis
  • Deliver, assess or certify training, or issue a statement of attainment
  • Hold health, fitness, BA medicals, fatigue, exposure or injury records, a date of birth or the USI
  • Set a limit, interval, par, crew number, test point or currency rule: each is the brigade’s
  • Page, dispatch, track live availability or time responses: those stay in your own systems
  • Assign, approve or direct a strike team: it records the deployment the brigade went on

See it with your own brigade

Send us your appliance check, a station’s plan and your skills list. We will set up a station with fire and rescue switched on and show you the board and the training night working.

Or email us: info@escudoready.com

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