International Association of Fire Chiefs Partners with Intermedix and Esri to Build the National Mutual Aid System

REDLANDS, Calif. and NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The International Association of Fire Chiefs, the international fire service leader, Intermedix, the global leader of health and safety solutions, and Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, announced on Thursday the agreement to build the National Mutual Aid System or NMAS. The NMAS will be the next generation version of the IAFC’s Mutual Aid Net tool built in 2008. The NMAS will use Esri’s ArcGIS, a powerful location intelligence platform, and Intermedix’s WebEOC, a crisis information management software, to manage and track emergency services resources during mutual aid responses. During large-scale emergencies and disasters, it is critical for response personnel to have easy access to a mutual aid system for managing their resources. WebEOC will allow IAFC to manage information sharing, event reporting and task management in a central, web-based environment that allows IAFC to effortlessly connect to partner agencies and organizations during response efforts. The use of spatial data to identify and respond quickly and effectively is also paramount. Esri’s ArcGIS platform brings mutual aid management data into a location context, integrating that information into spatial analysis technology that emergency responders around the world use every day. 
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