Preplans / Fire Preplans / Building Pre-Planning

Each facility record can have its own fire preplan, which provides all the information your crews will need to know while enroute to a fire.

Preplans are Linked to Your Facility Records

In AngelTrack, facility records represent your customers and their buildings. You can create as many facility records as you like -- one per customer, or even several per customer if they have many locations. Each facility record can have its own preplan.

Your AngelTrack server must have a Fire Core license, and have at least one fire-related service level enabled, to use the preplans feature.

To access your facility list, find it in the sidebar of any dispatch- or billing-related page anywhere in AngelTrack. To access one specific facility record, you can search for it by name using the Search popover, accessible by clicking the magnifying glass in the top-right corner of most AngelTrack pages.

Adding or Editing a Preplan

To add or edit a facility's preplan, open the facility's record, and find and click the "Add Fire Preplan" link from the "Settings" tab. If the facility already has a preplan, then the link will say "Edit Fire Preplan" instead.

The preplan editor will open:

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The many sections of the preplan are listed in the left-hand menu. Click any section to expend it to see and edit its subsections. Each subsection has a variety of fields that will appear to the right when you select it.

You can fill out whichever fields are pertinent, and leave the rest blank. When AngelTrack later displays the preplan to a crew who is enroute, it will only show the fields that you've populated with data.

Remember that many of a facility's run-of-the-mill fields -- phone numbers, GPS coordinates, and location type -- are not stored in the preplan; rather, they are in the facility's main record.

Hydrants

The preplan form has fields for hydrants and other water supplies. However, it is best to put fire hydrants into AngelTrack's Hydrant List instead, so that AngelTrack can dynamically show dispatchers and crew members the distance and direction of nearby hydrants.

Viewing a Preplan While Enroute to a Fire

While enroute to a call, the Run Call page will offer a link to the origin facility's preplan, if any.

The link is also accessible from the same place while on-scene.

The facility's preplan is also viewable in the Offline PCR.

Checking Which Facilities Have a Preplan

To see which facility records have a preplan, and to see how many sections of the preplan have been filled out, use the Report Builder dataset named "Facilities", which contains a column with this information.

You don't need a Report Builder license to do this; from the Data Hub you can export the raw data and then finish your analysis in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.