You talk
Record on a phone, tablet, or laptop — in the bay, in the truck, at home. Tell the call the way you would tell another firefighter: what you were dispatched to, what you found, what you did, how it ended. It is built for how people actually talk, including the corrections.
It fills in the report
The recording is transcribed and turned into a structured NERIS report: incident type (all three levels of the hierarchy), timestamps, units, actions, and both narratives. Where we have a department’s local street and place names, the transcriber learns them before it listens.
You review
Every field the system filled in is visibly marked, so you always know what came from you and what came from it. If a required field is missing, it asks one question at a time. You correct anything it got wrong — this step is not optional and is not meant to be.
You file
One tap sends the report to NERIS through the official federal API — not a CSV export someone uploads later. If NERIS rejects something, you get the reason in plain language, pointed at the exact field. There is no auto-submit; nothing leaves without your explicit action.
The honest limits
- It can mishear and it can be wrong. Transcription and extraction are imperfect; that is exactly why every AI-filled field is marked and the review step exists. You are signing the report, so you read it first — same as it ever was.
- You still have to tell the story. If you do not say what units responded, no software should invent it. Missing required fields come back to you as questions, not as guesses.
- Filing requires your department's say-so. Like any software that files through the NERIS API, your department's NERIS Admin has to enroll our Client ID (Enrollments in the left menu at neris.fsri.org, about two minutes, steps here) before reports go out under its name. The no-account trial lets you test the voice-to-report part first; trial reports are kept separate and can be filed only to NERIS's test system under FireMic's test department, never to a real department.
That is the whole idea. If it sounds like it would save your evenings, here is the page about the evenings; if you are comparing options, here is how to evaluate NERIS software, including FireMic.