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.
• 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.
• 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.