Guides

NERIS guides for fire departments

Written in plain language for the person who actually files the reports. Like the free tools, these are useful whether or not you ever use our product.

• What is NERIS?The new federal fire incident reporting system, explained: who runs it, what replaced NFIRS, and what actually changed for your department.
• NERIS questions departments actually askIs it mandatory? What happened to NFIRS? How does a vendor get authorized? Direct answers with the official source linked on every one.
• NERIS deadlines, and which have passedEvery date in the NFIRS shutdown, marked passed or upcoming, with the official source for each — and what it means if your department is behind.
• NERIS login helpWhere the official sign-in page is, why it emails a code every time, and the four separate reasons a login fails — with who to contact for each.
• The NERIS data modelModules that switch on, three-level incident types, and why a rejected submission is almost always one bad value rather than a broken report.
• The NERIS API, explainedWhat it is, what your department has to do to authorize software, and the five questions that separate a real integration from a claimed one.
• Choosing NERIS reporting softwareThe questions worth asking any vendor, the options we know about with links to each, and where FireMic fits and where it does not.
• Switching NERIS reporting softwareFor departments that chose in a hurry against a deadline: what to check before moving, and the honest case for staying where you are.
• NERIS for volunteer fire departmentsMost US fire departments are volunteer or mostly volunteer. What the reporting change looks like when nobody is paid to sit at a desk.
• Voice-to-NERIS, explainedHow talking through a call becomes a structured federal filing, what gets reviewed before anything is sent, and the honest limits of the approach.