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Fire chief seeks First Due software to meet new national reporting standard; county cost share discussed
Summary
Fire Chief Ryan O’Hearn recommended replacing multiple legacy platforms with First Due to comply with the National Emergency Response Information System and to consolidate incident reporting, patient care, training and asset tracking. Chief said regional transition is mandatory this fall and full legacy-phaseout is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2026. The
Fire Chief Ryan O’Hearn told the Pocatello City Council work session the department must replace legacy reporting tools to comply with an upgraded national incident reporting standard and proposed contracting with First Due for a consolidated software platform.
O’Hearn said the older National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) is being replaced by a broader National Emergency Response Information System and that the region’s scheduled transition starts in October; reporting to the legacy system will end Jan. 1, 2026. “The system that we’re currently using is not going to be compliant with new standards, and so that necessitates a new fire incident reporting system,” O’Hearn said.
The department currently uses multiple separate…
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