Availability and Alerting Just Got Smarter

Fire and rescue services are the backbone of community safety.

Ready to respond when it matters most. But today, challenges like ensuring on-call fire engine availability are growing.

Likewise, replacing outdated pagers needed to alert On-call firefighters, threatens fire and rescue services ability to respond and serve effectively.

What if there was a smarter way to meet these challenges?

Meet FireServiceRota, a global leader in optimizing resources for emergency services.

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OARS optimizes On-call availability

OARS is a cloud-based SaaS application, offering strategic leaders and managers easy, browser-based access to advanced analytics

Unlike availability rostering systems, this software doesn’t just track schedules – it analyses and models data to provide actionable insights for smarter decision-making about recruitment and availability.

With O-A-R-S, fire and rescue services across the world can continually monitor several crucial performance metrics from disparate data sources

Fire and rescue services in the UK are already using our software to guide recruitment strategies, workforce planning, and resource optimization – turning challenges into actionable solutions.

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On-call landscape (revised and updated)

On-call, non-career, and volunteer firefighters are a precious, predominant yet ever-diminishing asset for many fire and rescue services. Against an unfavourable backdrop for recruitment this blog post discusses what the challenges involve, what lay ahead, and what we can do using fire service research, data, and expertise to support the sector with viable solutions which surmount these challenges.

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What's in a name?

This article highlights that across the world firefighters referred to as on-call, volunteer, non-career, or sometimes part-time may be afforded different names but invariably they are very similar: nominally paid, alerted to a fire station by a pager/app, and available when needed. They are also increasingly becoming the predominant resource used across the world.

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Widest Possible Pool

One of our Fire and Rescue Service Research based, Data Solutions: calculating the Widest Possible Pool of recruits at On-call stations which can only recruit from a pool of people living or working within 5 minutes of the local station & can only diversify according to local demographics….

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Listen to re-enkindle’s founder discussing:

What data tells us about the On-call landscape.

How research can help support fire and rescue services as they seek to recruit and retain On-call firefighters against an unfavourable backdrop.

Fire Service Culture and the local culture at the On-call’s core.

A culture of collaboration.

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