Purpose

1. To explain the role that Units play in creating an effective pre-plan, and how to select, place and modify them.
   
   
   

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What are Units?

1. Units are items placed in a pre-plan to indicate fire and life safety elements of a building relevant during a response. Examples of Units include fire department connections, Knox boxes, operational sides of a building, hoarder house and elevator locations.
   

INFO: First Due has a large catalog of available Units. If you do not see a Unit that you would like in your pre-plans, contact your Client Success Manager.

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Using Units

1. There are two ways to add Units:
   
   
   

1. OPTION 1:
   
   
1. Selecting the Plus Icon  on the right side of the screen:
   
   

1. This will open a drop down menu of available Units.
   
   

1. Select the Unit you wish to place.
   
   

1. Select where you wish to place it on the map.
   
   

1. OPTION 2: Selecting the Plus Icon  from the top left of the screen:
   

1. Opens up the top-left Units menu.
   
   

1. Select Add New
   
   

1. Choose the desired Unit Type from the drop down list.
   
   

1. Select   and the Unit will show in the lower left of the map window in Unmapped Items.
   
   
   
2. Drag the Unit from Unmapped Items to the appropriate place on the map.
   

TIP: Unmapped Items are a great way to identify "shared" items such as a common FDC or Knox Box for a strip shopping center or garden apartment strip with multiple addresses. Add the unit on the map of one address and then make the unit "unmapped" in the remaining addresses. That way, the map isn't cluttered with multiples of the same icon in the same place and the Units information still shows up in the pre-plan Dashboard.

Best Practices

1. There are times when the description of a Unit isn't quite enough.  In that case, add a photograph.  In the case below is a Sprinkler Room inside of a storage unit.
   

NOTE: Be sure your photograph provides proper context. Don't just take a close up photograph of the item. Step back and show why you are including the image.

"If a picture tells a thousand words, be sure yours doesn't just convey one." - J.A.