RedAlert Fire Prevention
The inspector and the engine company are looking at the same record
RedAlert Fire Prevention runs inspections, permits, investigations, and occupancy records from a tablet in the field, against the same property records your crews see when a call comes in at that address. Every violation, hazardous material, and utility shut-off an inspector documents becomes situational awareness for the people who respond. One database, no export, no nightly sync.
Most departments run prevention and operations on separate systems. The fire marshal's office has one database of properties. The trucks have another. When an inspector finds something, it goes in the prevention system, and the crew responding to that address at two in the morning never sees it.
RedAlert doesn't work that way. The property record your inspector opens is the same record your responders see in Responder and on the MDT. Not a copy, not a nightly sync, the same record.
So when an inspector walks a building and finds fifty gallons of solvent in a back room, a hoarding situation, an active construction site with a compromised stairwell, a dry hydrant, or a dog that will be a problem, they document it against the property and the crew sees it on the way in. Hazardous materials get documented by type, quantity, and location. Utility shut-offs and preplan data live on the same record. Every violation an inspector writes becomes situational awareness for the people who show up if that building burns.
That's the argument for keeping prevention and operations in one system. It isn't about saving the fire marshal a few keystrokes. It's about the responders knowing what the inspector already found out.
Every department inspects different things under different codes. RedAlert Fire Prevention is built to be configured rather than accepted as-is. You define your occupancy types, so a department managing industrial, commercial, and multi-family properties tracks each the way it actually thinks about them. You define your permit types, each with its own stipulations, cycle length, and renewal workflow. And you define your violation code sets. RedAlert can handle IFC, UFC, BOCA, Life Safety, and most state codes in the system, and anything local to your municipality can get uploaded alongside them. Inspectors can also add ad-hoc violations on site when something doesn't map cleanly to a code.
See the capability behind this product: Fire Prevention & Inspections · Pre-Incident Planning & Mapping.
What RedAlert Fire Prevention does
Inspections
- Tablet-based inspections with customizable types and checklists, built to your department's specifications
- Violation codes pulled from IFC, UFC, BOCA, Life Safety, state, and local code sets, with ad-hoc violations available on site
- Photos, notes, and signature capture in the field
- Automatic or manual re-inspection scheduling on failures
- Calendar view of everything scheduled and due
- Violation letters and compliance notices generated and sent from the tablet
Permits
- Permits generated directly from an inspection
- Custom permit types with their own stipulations and cycle lengths
- Renewal letters generated automatically as expirations approach
- Full application-to-expiration history on the property record
Properties and occupancies
- Custom occupancy types defined by your department
- Parent and child property relationships for malls, campuses, and multi-building complexes
- Owner and occupant contacts, special-needs occupants, and full compliance history
- Hazardous materials documented by type, quantity, and location, with NFPA data
- Preplan data including utility shut-offs, visible to responding crews
Hazmat and investigations
- Hazmat response management with team member tracking and internal dispatching, for teams operating without their own FD ID
- Fire investigation case management: incidents, leads, evidence, and cause-and-origin findings
- Court-ready investigation reports
Common questions
Can we use our own inspection forms and violation codes?
Yes. Inspection types, checklists, occupancy types, and permit types are all configured by your department. Most standard code sets are already in the system and we upload any local codes your municipality adopts. Inspectors can also add ad-hoc violations during an inspection when something doesn't fit an existing code.
Can inspectors work from a tablet in the field?
Yes. The iPad app runs the full inspection workflow on site: the code checklist, violations, photos, notes, and signature capture. Inspectors can generate and send the violation letter or compliance notice from the app before leaving the property, and everything syncs to the property record immediately.
Do our first responders see what our inspectors find?
Yes, and this is the reason to keep prevention and operations in one system. Inspectors and responders work from the same property record, so hazardous materials, hoarding conditions, construction hazards, dry hydrants, utility shut-offs, and any note an inspector adds appear in the Responder app and on the MDT when a call comes in at that address. There's no export, no nightly sync, and no chance the crew is looking at last year's information.
Does RedAlert Fire Prevention handle fire investigations?
Yes. Investigations run through a case management tool that tracks the incident, leads, evidence, and cause-and-origin findings, and produces court-ready reports. Cases link back to the originating incident record and to the property.
Can we manage hazmat response in the system?
Yes. Hazmat team members, response tracking, and property-level hazardous materials data are all supported, including NFPA data. Teams that operate without their own FD ID can use the internal dispatching function to track their own responses separately from the external dispatch system.
Can we track inspection equipment and inventory?
Yes. Inventory management includes barcode and QR code scanning for equipment checks, so gear and instruments are tracked against the same system as everything else.
What reporting comes with it?
Dozens of fire prevention and occupancy reports ship with the system, and our team builds custom reports during the onboarding process when what you need isn't already there. Because prevention data lives in the same database as incidents and personnel, you can report across all of it: inspection completion rates, open violations by occupancy type, permit revenue, repeat offenders, and inspection history against actual incident history at the same addresses.
Works with the rest of the RedAlert family
Every product syncs into the same database. That's what all-in-one means.
See RedAlert Fire Prevention in action
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