Innovation
Additionally, the Fire District is known nationally for its many innovations. Among these are its volunteer firefighter recruitment, retention and residency program; Missouri state certified contextually formatted training; and public safety education, which received the 1996 International Association of Fire Chiefs Championship Award for Excellence for its Survival Kids Program.
Several Fire District personnel are actively involved in far reaching national and international emergency service programs, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, International Association of Fire Chiefs and the International Fire Service Training Association. Currently, three members serve on FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue Response System Incident Support Team and six members serve on Missouri's Statewide Fire Mutual Aid Incident Support Team (Region F IST).
In November 2009 the Fire District purchased new software that will increase preparedness for large-scale incidents. The E-Sponder software will use mass notification tools such as cell phones, email, pagers, and global social media forms like Facebook to alert personnel about ongoing incidents. The software can also be used for personnel accountability on large structure fires and GPS to track grids that have been searched during search and rescue operations.
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