NERIS: What Do You Need to Know?

About this episode

This episode discusses the National Emergency Response Information System and its implementation challenges and benefits for fire departments.

Want to learn more about NERIS? On this episode of Professional Volunteer Fire Department, Tom Merrill checks in with Tom Jenkins for a four-month status report on the National Emergency Response Information System. This system went live January 1st, replacing NFIRS. They cover who's on board, common onboarding snags, and practical steps departments should take now, such as verifying their organizational record, training users with short how-to videos, engaging dispatch centers, and standardizing entries. Jenkins explains dashboards and insights reporting and the help desk and regional outreach. They also discuss why accurate timestamps, dispatch data, and interagency tagging matter for funding, staffing, and community planning. This episode is brought to you by The Fire Store: https://thefirestore.com/ This episode is brought to you by Fire Facilities: https://www.firefacilities.com/ Quick favor: take our 3-minute (anonymous) listener survey to help shape what we cover next: https://sprw.io/stt-9EB04

People in this episode

Host: Tom Merrill

Guest: Tom Jenkins

Topics covered

• National Emergency Response Information System
• fire department training
• dispatch data
• community planning
• onboarding process

Keywords

• NERIS
• fire department
• training
• dispatch
• funding
• community planning
• onboarding
• data accuracy

Sponsors

The Fire Store, Fire Facilities

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Emergency Response Information System, NFIRS

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