Release Notes - Incident Documentation - NFIRS

Release Notes - Incident Documentation - NFIRS

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In order to provide you with more detailed information on our updates we have broken the Release Notes down by module. 




Enhancement

1. [OIC] Exclude the EMS units from the logic to determine OIC

  1. Background:    Sometimes, the first arriving unit is an EMS apparatus but usually, the OIC is coming in another unit that is not EMS (Other or Suppression).
  2.  What's new?  We improved the feature to get the OIC from any other unit instead of the EMS ones, without affecting the current first arriving behavior.
  3.  Details:  We added a new setting in the Fire Incident Setup -> Response -> Resources section labeled “Do you want to exclude the EMS units from the OIC logic?“


  1. This setting is based on the integration used to populate the personnel (Scheduling, Telestaff, or Crewsense).
  2. The apparatus type is taken from the field Primary NFIRS Use in the apparatus record.



  1. If the Primary Use of the first arriving unit is different from EMS, the OIC will be populated as it is now.
  2. If the Primary Use of the first arriving unit is EMS, we disregard this apparatus and take the OIC from the next unit that arrived with a primary use different from EMS (Other or Suppression)
  3. For those incidents where all units are EMS, the OIC will be taken from the first arriving unit as we do now.
  4. This setting includes the tooltip describing the feature.
  1. IMPORTANT NOTE:
    1. If these conditions are in place: 
      1. You have excluded EMS from the OIC logic
      2. Ambulance 1 has EMS as primary use and is associated with Assignment X
      3. Assignment X has at least 1 personnel (valid for Incident Reporting) in a position enabled for OIC
      4. You have the Integration with Scheduling Enabled and configured
    2. As a result: If you get an NFIRS notification where the First arriving is Ambulance 1, it will populate the OIC from Scheduling
    3. However, when a 2nd apparatus, which is not EMS, arrives but is not associated with any available assignments, EMS units are excluded if any other apparatus is responding that is not EMS (Suppression, Other) regardless of assignment.  The only time EMS units are considered for OIC is when all units responding are EMS units.

2. [Response][Station] Make optional the Station population from the Responding feature

  1. Background:    Recently, we implemented the ability to add to the Station Response section, users that are not assigned to an apparatus, whenever they select any response other than “Not Available” via Mobile App or Responder.
  2.  What's new?   We added a setting under the Fire Incident Setup → Response → Station Response section labeled “Populate personnel users into Station Response via Status in Responder“ to make this feature optional 
  3.  Details:
    1. This setting will be set to Yes by default
    2. When the setting is Yes, the feature will work as it was previously implemented, which means when a user (not a unit user or assigned to an apparatus) selects any response other than “Not Available” via the Mobile App or within Responder, pull the personnel info and add them to the Station Response table
    3. When the setting is No, the Station Response population will be disabled, which means the user selecting any status won’t be included in the call unless it is a unit user and is added as an apparatus.  Any additional users will need to be added to the station response manually.
    4. This setting includes a tooltip describing the behavior expected when turning it on



New Features:



Fixes:

  1. Performance improvements in the NFIRS setup page
  2. Some fixes for minor bugs

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