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FH Mobile Response is an electronic incident action plan you can use to plan for almost any type of incident, such as chemical, biological, law enforcement, a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, and so forth. FH Mobile Response includes a default set of guidance materials derived from the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG), by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with a host of other sources such as US Coast Guard, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and National Toxicology Program (NTP). Airborne dispersion models from Areal Location of Hazardous Atmospheres (ALOHA) and the ERG are automatically displayed on the map as a plume to assist in evacuation and emergency planning. You can modify the included guidance to meet the needs of your organization, and you can add and create your own content, hazards, agents, guidance materials, and organizational charts.

FH Mobile Response includes the latest Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) ArcGIS geographic information system, with geographic data provided by NAVTEQ®. ESRI allows the user a high level of map interactivity, so that you can create your own facility information and embed location-specific documents into these facilities, which are shown directly on the map. You can also manage map layers, annotate your maps, display sensor and detector data, and drag-and-drop resources directly onto a map. If they are in a compatible format, you can use your own map files with FH Mobile Response.

FH Mobile Response provides full map routing capabilities. With the purchase of FH Mobile Response Basic or FH Mobile Response Premium with routing, you can create optimal paths to the scene of an incident, track in real-time a global positioning system (GPS)-enabled vehicle’s progress to the destination, and display turn-by-turn directions while receiving audible cues.

Other features of FH Mobile Response include: 

  • Computer-aided dispatch (CAD) integration
  • Unit-to-unit messaging
  • National Incident Management System (NIMS) Smartform Technology
  • Automatically generated reports
  • The ability to get live weather data from a meteorological station, or over the Internet from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) or automatic weather station (AWS) weather stations
  • The ability to see other FH Mobile Response-enabled vehicles on the map
  • Synchronization of incident data from other FH Mobile Response-enabled units in the field
ClosedBasic features

  • Map, tracking, and automatic vehicle location (AVL) and computer-aided dispatch (CAD)

    • Street maps—Comes with the latest NAVTEQ® street maps for all of North America, which include information on hospitals, schools, stadiums, businesses, and other points of interest. NAVTEQ is the world’s leading provider of premium digital maps.
    • Real-time vehicle tracking—Accepts data from a vehicle-mounted GPS and displays the vehicle location on its built-in street maps.
    • AVL integration—Reports vehicle location and status information automatically to your AVL system. Vehicle location is automatically relayed to all FH Mobile Response Premium systems that share the same digital network for real-time display.
    • CAD integration—Accepts incident dispatch, routing, and unit status messages either automatically from your CAD system, or manually from you.

  • Local data integration

    • View local data—Displays local digital geographic information critical to your field operations, such as the locations of utility lines and fire hydrants, or overhead imagery. If your information is in an ESRI-compatible format, FH Mobile Response uses and displays it.
    • Search local data—Lets you quickly search its geographic database (including local information you have added) for features of interest within a region, or nearest to a particular location. For example, you can search for schools, hospitals, or fire hydrants.
    • Real-time weather—Displays weather information from the nearest NOAA or AWS, when Internet access is available.

  • Preplan integration

    • Preplan automation—Each incident initiates a full automated search for relevant preplans and critical site data. The data is displayed prominently, clearly illustrating critical infrastructure data suited for emergency response.
    • FIREHOUSE Software synchronization – Occupancies, inspections, attachments, chemicals, tanks, hydrants, and preplan information are synchronized with your centralized FIREHOUSE Software databases, using a configurable scheduler.

  • Data recording and communications

    • Incident action logging—Automatically records and time-stamps all FH Mobile Response operator actions for later review.
    • Unit-to-unit communications—Sends and receives text messages to or from other FH Mobile Response systems that share the same digital network, or through an Internet server.
    • Incident data sharing—Receives and displays incident information from other FH Mobile Response systems that share the same digital network, or through an Internet server.
ClosedPremium features
  • All features of FH Mobile Response Basic, except navigation
  • NAVTEQ premium street maps
  • GPS, AVL, and CAD integration
  • ESRI-compatible map and feature display
  • Incident action logging and communications
ClosedPremium additional features
  • Custom map views—Lets you create custom map views to meet different needs. A map view is a single combination of one or more maps and geographic information system (GIS) feature layers relevant for a particular role or situation.
  • Complex search—Searches the geographic database (including local information you have added) for features of interest within a region or nearest to a particular location. For example, you could search for all hospitals within the Acute Exposure Guideline Level (AEGL) level 1 hazard area during a chemical event, display them on the map, and print a report.
  • Facility pre-planning data—Finds and displays pre-planning data associated with a particular facility. Such data can include pre-defined items of interest such as street address, type of construction, and emergency contact, along with documents such as building plans, photographs, and response plans.
  • Tactical view—Automatically displays current locations of FH Mobile Response-equipped vehicles, along with the assigned locations for all units and personnel responding to the incident. Also displays the incident map annotated by Incident Commander using ADASHI Command Post.
  • Incident and element location—Lets you locate and characterize an incident on the map. At any time, you can have multiple incidents in progress. For more complex situations, you can also locate and characterize separate components, called elements, within a single incident . This feature accepts the location of the incident either automatically from your CAD system, or manually from you.
  • Organization and resources—Displays the Incident Command System (ICS) hierarchy and the resources assigned to or available to respond to the incident, and the location of resources on the map.
  • Smart forms—Helps you fill out and print standard NIMS, and local incident management and reporting forms. Internal FH Mobile Response data associated with fields on the form automatically appear on the form. For example, if multiple forms require entry of the incident date, incident commander, and incident location, that data automatically appears on each form for you.
  • Contextual guidance—Automatically filters and presents only the relevant guidance data for the specific incident type, hazard, and your incident response role.
  • Incident response checklists—Provides a list of relevant incident- and hazard-specific standard operating procedure (SOP) checklists for you to associate with the incident. As you check off each item on the associated checklists, FH Mobile Response records the action in the built-in incident actions log.
  • Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) 2008 and Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations (CAMEO) guidance—Integrates the critical chemical hazard data that first responders need from the ERG 2008 and CAMEO emergency response databases. Provides data for thousands of specific chemicals, including emergency procedures, first aid, protective equipment and material properties.
  • All-hazard guidance—Provides specific guidance for a broad range of hazardous situations, including fire, crime, medical, search and rescue, and natural disasters. Guidance includes checklists and federally mandated procedures.
  • ALOHA for hazardous materials and terrorist incidents—Provides airborne hazard prediction and mapping of hot/warm zones, isolation distances, and evacuation areas, based on real-time weather. Automatically sets ALOHA model parameters for the worst-case scenario, which you can modify if better information becomes available at the scene.
  • Sensor data—Acquires measurement data from networked chemical, biological, and radiological sensors, and displays the sensor’s location, output, and alarm status on the map.