The report problem
Hate writing fire reports? You are not alone.
Nobody joins the fire service to fill in forms. But every call ends the same way: the trucks are backed in, the gear is hung, everyone else goes home — and somebody still owes the report.
You know how it goes. The call itself you could tell in two minutes at the kitchen table: what you were dispatched to, what you found, what you did, how it ended. The report is the same story fed through a form that keeps asking for it in a different order — pick the incident type from a tree, break the response out by unit, split the narrative in two, get every timestamp right.
So it waits. Until after the shift, after work, after the kids are down. And a report written three days later is a worse report — not because anyone got lazy, but because memory fades and the details that make a report worth reading fade first.
The move from NFIRS to NERIS made the data better and the form longer. Incident types went from a memorized number to a three-level hierarchy. The narrative became two narratives. Each unit now gets its own entry. Good for the fire service as a whole; more fields for whoever is holding the report tonight. (The full list of what changed is in our free NFIRS → NERIS explainer.)
The part nobody says out loud
The person who ran the call already has the whole report in their head. The problem was never knowing what happened. The problem is the typing — and the typing is the one part a machine is actually good at.
What telling it instead looks like
FireMic lets you file the report the way you would tell it. Hit record and talk through the call — ramble, correct yourself, say "scratch that". You get back a filled-in NERIS report: type, times, units, actions, narrative. Every field the system filled in is marked, and if something required is missing, it asks you one question at a time instead of handing you a wall of red.
Then you read it, fix what it got wrong, and file. It goes to NERIS through the official federal API. There is no auto-submit — nothing is sent until you have looked at it and tapped the button yourself.
You can try it right now, in the browser, on tonight's call, with no account. If it does not save you time, close the tab and you have lost three minutes.