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Your Fire Department. Digitized.
The Problem

The Paper Trail Ends Here

Volunteer fire departments have been stuck with the same broken system for decades.

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Lost Records

Paper sign-in sheets disappear, get coffee-stained, or never make it back to the station.

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One-Person Bottleneck

One officer maintains everything in a personal spreadsheet. When they leave, the data goes with them.

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Filing Cabinet Chaos

Training records, certifications, and member files scattered across drawers, binders, and email inboxes.

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Year-End Scramble

Days spent reconstructing LOSAP points from incomplete records. Missed points mean missed money.

The Platform

One System. Everything Connected.

🔥 WATCHDESK
Response Logging
Log fire and EMS call responses with crew, unit, disposition, and call details. Pre-fill from Active911 CAD dispatch alerts.
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Response Logging
Fire & EMS calls
Training & Drills
Record training hours, drills, and courses. Members self-submit with file attachments. Tracks LOSAP credits automatically.
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Training & Drills
Courses, hours, certs
Meeting Attendance
Track attendance for business meetings, drills, and special events. Voting meeting flags for quorum tracking. LOSAP credits counted automatically.
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Meeting Attendance
LOSAP credit tracking
Volunteer Hours
Track duty hours, stand-by time, and sleep-in hours. Batch entry for multiple members. Feeds Maryland’s volunteer tax credit calculation.
Volunteer Hours
Duty & stand-by
Certifications
Manage Fit Test, CPR, and EMT certifications with expiration tracking. Automated email reminders before they expire. Self-service submission for renewals.
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Certifications
Fit Test, CPR, EMT
LOSAP & Tax Credit
Real-time LOSAP and Maryland State Tax Credit point tracking. Auto-generates PG County Form 1024 and State Tax forms — print-ready.
LOSAP & Tax Credit
Auto-generated forms
Apparatus Fleet
Full fleet management with mileage tracking, maintenance charts, configurable inspection checklists, and custom fields per vehicle.
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Apparatus Fleet
Mileage, checks, maintenance
Reports & Exports
One-click LOSAP reports, State Tax forms, certification status, activity summaries, and CSV exports for any data table.
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Reports & Exports
One-click generation
Notifications
Email, push, and SMS notifications for approval workflow, certification expirations, and apparatus service reminders. SMS is available as a premium add-on. Members control their own preferences.
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Notifications
Email, push & SMS alerts
Member Profiles
Personal dashboards with profile photos, real-time LOSAP and Tax Credit points, cert status, call stats, and self-service profile editing.
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Member Profiles
Dashboard & self-service
How It Works

Three Steps. Zero Complexity.

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Sign In

Use your department Google or Microsoft email. No new passwords.

📝 2

Log Activity

Submit responses, training, meetings, and hours as they happen.

📈 3

Auto-Calculate

LOSAP and tax credit points update instantly. Check anytime.

Beyond Recordkeeping

Included With Every Station

More than a database — the dispatch and field-awareness tools that keep your crews ready, all at no extra cost.

Included 🚒

CAD Dispatch & Alerts

Live dispatch alerts from Active911 or your CAD email/SMS feed land in a station queue. Log a response in one tap, auto-approve career calls, and clear whole batches at once.

Included 🏥

Live Hospital Status

Real-time MIEMSS/EDAS emergency-department, trauma, and specialty availability for your region — plus turn-by-turn directions to the ambulance bay.

Included 📻

Live Radio

Stream live OpenMHz scanner feeds for the radio systems serving your county, right from inside the app.

Included 📹

Traffic Cameras

Browse 500+ Maryland CHART traffic cameras sorted by distance, and pin the ones near your first-due for instant size-up.

Included 📩

RSVP Events

Run banquets, fundraisers, and drills with public and member RSVPs, QR-code sign-up links, and one-click calendar invites — with reminders sent automatically.

Included 🎖

Member History & Qualifications

Keep a staff-only dated record of awards, promotions, leave, and discipline — and track professional-development qualifications and progressions for your members.

Premium Add-Ons

Optional Premium Add-Ons

Layer on the capabilities your station actually needs — enable each one independently, leave the rest off.

Premium 📱

SMS Notifications

Carrier-grade SMS alerts for staffing changes and paging. Members opt in or out per category — with STOP/START keyword handling and every send logged.

Premium 🚒

Station Staffing

Set your staffing level (in service / partial / out of service). Designated recipients get an SMS automatically when it changes, with full history kept.

Premium 📟

Station Paging

Send a paging message to filtered groups — by membership type, turnover phase, or individual members. Members control their own opt-out from their profile.

Premium 📲

CAD Paging

Auto-text the dispatch to opted-in members the instant a call drops — no manual paging. Exactly-once delivery, even when CAD arrives over multiple feeds.

Premium 💬

In-App Messaging

Real-time station chat that replaces GroupMe — official channels, direct messages, @mentions, reactions, search, and urgent SMS blasts, all inside WATCHDESK.

Premium 📅

Duty Scheduling

Build duty-crew shifts and rosters, let members self-sign-up for open seats, and auto-credit LOSAP hours on completion. Position/seat layouts, recurring templates, and a month calendar.

Premium 📡

Fleet Tracking

Live MyGeotab telematics for your apparatus — real-time vehicle status and automatic daily mileage sync straight into your maintenance records. Read-only and secure.

Premium 🎓

Learning Management

Build courses with rich content, videos, quizzes, and assignments. Track every member’s progress, auto-grade quizzes, share courses between stations, and feed completions straight into LOSAP training hours.

Premium 🚑

Ambulance Billing

Upload your county eMEDS statement and WATCHDESK reconciles every transport — splitting the four revenue shares, matching each call to your own run records, and flagging lost or mis-attributed money, with earnings credited back to members. Patient data stays minimized.

See It In Action

Built for Real Fire Departments

Clean interfaces. Zero learning curve. Everything your station needs.

🔒 watchdesk.org/profile
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J. Thompson
Firefighter / EMT-B
47
Calls
186
Hours
82
LOSAP pts
LOSAP Progress 82 / 100
🔒 watchdesk.org/responses
Recent Responses
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DateCall #UnitTypeDisp.
04/122641E810 Fire Controlled
04/112639A810 EMS Transport
04/102635E810 Fire No Incident
04/092631TW810 Hazmat Mitigated
🔒 watchdesk.org/reports/losap
LOSAP Summary
Award Year 2025–2026
Calls25 / 25
Training18 / 25
Meetings15 / 15
Hours12 / 15
Positions10 / 10
Total Points 82 / 100
By the Numbers

Built for the Mission

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20+ Modules
Responses, training, meetings, hours, certifications, apparatus, documents, notifications, staffing, paging, and more
Real-Time
LOSAP and Maryland State Tax Credit points calculate the instant you submit
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Smart Alerts
Email, push, and SMS alerts for approvals, staffing, and cert expirations
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AES-256
Military-grade encryption protects every SSN with unique random vectors
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Any Device
Desktop, tablet, or phone — install as a PWA app right from your browser
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Dark Mode
Full dark mode that follows your device preference or can be toggled manually
Security Architecture

Security at Every Layer

HTTPS / TLS — Encryption in Transit
Google Cloud Platform — Enterprise Infrastructure
AES-256-GCM — Field-Level Encryption
🛡 Your Data
Approval Workflow

Nothing Gets Recorded Without Sign-Off

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Member Submits

Activity logged

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Admin Notified

Email & push alert

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Review

Details verified

Decision

Approve or reject

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Record Final

Counted for points

Access Control

Role-Based Permissions

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Station Admin
Full station control — members, approvals, SSN access, reports, configuration
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Officers
View station activity, approve submissions, run reports — no SSN access
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Members
View and submit own data — responses, training, hours, certifications, profile
Works Everywhere

One App. Every Screen.

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Desktop

Full-featured admin dashboard for detailed work

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Tablet

Touch-friendly for station duty or meetings

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Phone

Quick submissions and approvals on the go

📤 Install as a Progressive Web App

iPhone: Open in Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen
Android: Open in Chrome → Menu → Add to Home Screen
No app store needed. Works offline-ready. Updates automatically.