Career & Combination Fire

Resgrid for Career & Combination Fire Departments

Run dispatch, shift scheduling, unit tracking, and incident command from one platform instead of five. Resgrid gives career and combination departments enterprise capability at a price a city council will actually approve.

Free for up to 10 users & units • No contracts • Set up in about 15 minutes

The problems chiefs deal with every day

Career and combination departments juggle complex schedules, multiple stations, and a stack of single-purpose software that doesn't talk to itself.

Scheduling complexity

Kelly schedules, 48/96s, trades, holds, and callback lists managed in dedicated scheduling software that costs thousands and still requires spreadsheet workarounds.

Too many disconnected systems

CAD from one vendor, scheduling from another, AVL from a third, messaging from a fourth. Every system has its own roster, its own bill, and its own support queue.

No live operational picture

Battalion chiefs can't see unit locations, statuses, and staffing across stations in one view. Move-ups and coverage decisions run on radio traffic and memory.

Budgets under a microscope

Every renewal season means justifying five separate line items to a council that wants cuts. Vendors know switching is painful and price accordingly.

How Resgrid solves it

One roster, one platform, one bill — dispatch, scheduling, AVL, command, and communications that share the same data.

Full-lifecycle CAD

Create, dispatch, update, and close calls with multi-channel notifications, GPS handling, priorities, protocols, and complete audit trails. Feed calls in from your PSAP via email or API.

Shift management built for fire

Rotating patterns, sign-ups, trades, and shift groups. Shift-based dispatch automatically alerts on-duty personnel — no more paging the whole department for a staffed-station response.

AVL & unit status

Live apparatus locations from the Unit app or dedicated GPS hardware via built-in Traccar integration. Statuses, staffing, and locations roll up to a common operating picture.

Incident command

The Resgrid IC app runs accountability and command on any tablet or phone — cross-platform, not locked to one device ecosystem.

AI-native operations

Query and control your system in natural language over SMS, Slack, Discord, Telegram, or web chat. 'Who's on duty at Station 2?' gets an answer, not a login.

Analytics & reporting

Calls by type, week, and station with date filtering, plus PDF exports of full call records for FOIA requests, reviews, and command staff reporting.

Consolidate the vendor stack

Departments commonly pay four to six vendors for capabilities Resgrid ships in one platform.

What you use today

Examples

Typical cost

Included in Resgrid

Supplemental alerting

Active911, Bryx, station alerting add-ons

$1,000–$3,000 / yr

Multi-channel dispatch & alerting

Scheduling & workforce

Aladtec, Telestaff, eSchedule

$2,000–$8,000 / yr

Shifts, trades & shift-based dispatch

AVL / fleet tracking

Samsara, Verizon Connect

$25–$40 per vehicle / mo

Unit app AVL + Traccar hardware GPS

Incident command boards

Tablet Command, paper tactical worksheets

$500–$2,000+ / yr

Resgrid IC app, cross-platform

Team messaging & PTT

Zello Work, GroupMe, carrier PTT

$6–$10 per user / mo

Messaging, chat & PTT add-on

Records & exports

Spreadsheets, shared drives

Staff hours

Documents, logs, PDF call export

Typical combined spend: $5,000–$15,000+ per year across vendors. Resgrid's entity-based pricing covers all of it in one predictable subscription — with no modules, no per-feature upsells, and no contracts.

The business case writes itself

Bring a single consolidated line item to your next budget cycle instead of defending five renewals.

$5K–$15K

typical yearly vendor consolidation

3–5 hrs

scheduling admin saved weekly

1 roster

instead of one per vendor

0

contracts or implementation fees

Time back

  • Shift trades and callbacks handled in-app instead of by phone and paper
  • One personnel roster feeds dispatch, scheduling, messaging, and reporting
  • Battalion-level move-up decisions from a live map, not radio polling
  • Call records export to PDF in seconds for FOIA and after-action reviews

Budget back

  • Replace scheduling, alerting, AVL, and command tools with one subscription
  • Entity-based pricing — pay for people and units, not modules and features
  • Weekly updates and same-day fixes without professional-services invoices
  • Open source means no vendor lock-in; self-host if procurement requires it

Savings estimates based on typical published pricing for scheduling, alerting, AVL, and command software; actual figures vary by department size and current contracts.

Enterprise capability, small-town price

8,000+ departments run on Resgrid. Stand up a trial account today, import your roster, and see your whole operation in one screen this shift.

Open source • Self-host or let us host it • Cancel anytime