UPDATES
milestones
January 30, 2021
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January 20, 2021
see News on main page
January 10, 2021
Happy New Year! First Update of 2021 is ready and there are news for the next one, too.
The assignment of existing vehicles to a new unit (e.g. being used as an reserve apparatus now) has been made much more easy. Logged-in users can store an apparatus by clicking a button and suggest it at the new unit.
As been announced, we do have an additional way of presenting some information for you. Due to technical problems, the
article about the Los Angeles County Fire Department is available in german only, at this time. We are working on it, please try again in a few days.
We do have also experienced some problems with the character sets. If you are aware of some missed display errors, please inform us.
There will be a structure change in the near future, too. In case you bookmarked some of the continents, countries, states or counties, these will cease to work in a few days and have to be set one time more. We apologize for this one-time inconvenience.
23.11.2020
This database now exists since over seven and a half years. There were times of fast development, but also long periods, when nothing new occured. But with the help of some diligent users and nowadays also an additional moderator, we were able maintain a collection of now over 25,000 units! A whole tenthousand stations from providers all over the US and Germany, but also some other european and abroad countries show, that the project is working. And it rises! There are also some backend changes, even if they were not communicated properly. This shall change from now on.
A bit older are informations, which are shown at the county level. Used in California only to this time, for example to tell why
Kern County does not have CalFIRE stations. Suggestions to
webmaster@ems-fire-database.info are appreciated due to being a flexible system not being able to changed by form now.
There is also the possibility to designate an units status as Unknown, if some does not know if this particular unit is frontline or cross-staffed, for example.
You can change from unit to vehicle times faster, too.
Today the following changes were made:
- There is a new category for providers to give Combined Fire Departments some more attention. They are displayed after full-time Fire Departments now. Please understand that existing entrys are changed step by step, but you can help by editing.
- "additional" has been replaced by "cross-Staffed" in most circumstances, due to being more accurate.
- There are provider-news now, especially for staffing changes, new strategies or equipment orders. Please send in suggestions by mail for now. Changes made for stations and units of the provider shall be seen there automatically for a limited period of time, too. This is not coded by this time.
Future changes planned:
- Some more background changes, even at the (literal) database for being able to code more flexible. Users will not notice much of that.
- Last but not least there was the finding, that a pure data collection is something uninspiring. For that some of the gathered informations will be processed in a different manner, starting in January. Stand by for more information ...
03.04.2016
Station details - unit table sortable
28.03.2016
Newest Units - Extended list
20.01.2016
Abbreviated Call Signs
Option for that
Registry/Shop Numbers
forums registration changed
01.08.2015
Units connectable to preplanned groups (e.g.
Light Forces)
09.07.2015
Added (and scripted) Option "Get Mail for watchlist alerts"
15.05.2015
Added Option "Get Mail for accepted suggestions"
Added Option "Abbreviate unit designations"
Added Option "Abbreviate provider names"
05.04.2015
Unit entry "personalized" added
Unit option "water" added
21.01.2015
station websites added
milestone page
19.12.2014
dispatched units per dispatch
08.09.2014
different station order
30.08.2014
Added option "Unknown Dispatch" for station suggest/edit
28.07.2014
Pages more and more available in german (if logged in)
23.06.2014
Unit entry "non-motorized" added
21.04.2014
Unit annotations possible
05.04.2014
.com adress activated
Random Unit on first page
Link Page enabled
24.03.2014
Last 5 Units on first page
16.03.2014
Assign New Vehicle possible now!
06.05.2013
Forum installed
26.04.2013 - 02.05.2013
Technical Updates
09.04.2013
Added reference numbers for denied suggestions
07.04.2013
Countrywide Dispatches available
Watchlist
06.04.2013
Provider: Merged page for providers operating in more than one county, option at editing
Station Edit: Dispatch change available
05.04.2013
Changed Vehicle:Seats used to Unit:Crew Assigned
Editing: Vehicle
Editing: Dispatch
Unit Edit: Station change available
04.04.2013
New Unit type: Air
Unit Suggestion: Designation: AutoComplete Suggestions
Automatically change Last Update on main page
03.04.2013
Editing: Unit
Unit: Designation: Abbreviations no longer allowed
02.04.2013
provider, station: units ordered by status (Frontline first) and callsign
Tables: better arranged
Backend: Designation: abbreviation/translation changeable
Editing: Station
01.04.2013
New Unit Status: Backup
Editing: Provider
31.03.2013
changes of data display
Abbreviations explaining by tooltip
New Sorts of Provider: Industrial Fire Department, Airport Fire Department
Make divided to Chassis and Fitout
Admin: Ability to close continents/countrys/states if all subdivisions are suggested
30.03.2013
Suggest new units (just registered users)
Technical changes of provider page
29.03.2013
Suggest new countries/states/countys/provider/stations (just registered users)
Backend
last update automatically changing
"Share Info" deleted (unnessecary)
New technical structure of the menu
FAQ and Impressum
28.03.2013
login/logout
registration
27.03.2013
new date format
basic login functions
26.03.2013
dispatch pages deleted - new special page for dispatches
trees revised
provider page revised
lots of technical improvements
hyperlink appearance changed
25.03.2013
unit history redesigned to unit details
vehicle details (includes vehicle history)
24.03.2013
unit history
23.03.2013
unit and vehicle separated in database
21.03.2013
Continent pages created
More data arrays added
19.03.2013
About created
Station and Vehicle charts
18.03.2013
Database
Department and Dispatch Charts
17.03.2013
Trees
Dispatch information page
16.03.2013
structural improvement
15.03.2013
EMS and Fire Database started.
Suggestions, not in work
Logo
Display tactical unit
Display emblems/patches/flags
Maps per County
Sort Stations by different criterias
Unit of the month