State Emergency Mobilization System
Working together with the South Carolina Firefighters' Association, ASG developed the State Emergency Mobilization System, or SEMS. SEMS is a web application which helps dispatchers quickly find and deploy nearby teams and equipment in the event of an emergency.
For the first time ever, information on all fire stations in the state has been collected in one place. Fire chiefs can use SEMS to review a station's equipment inventory and the firefighters' training certifications at a glance. Contact information for each station is also easy to look up.
The real strength of SEMS lies in its search and deployment capabilities.
- helps find, notify, assemble, and deploy available resources
- promotes efficient use of available resources
- enables SCFA to provide mutual aid to local firefighters
Requests for Aid
SEMS is also able to receive personnel and equipment requests from IRIS, the Internet Routed Information System. This allows SCFA to fulfill these requests promptly using the resources closest and best suited to the incident. SEMS’s time tracking feature also helps the SCFA administrator keep track of how much time personnel have spent responding to the incident, which facilitates payment for non-volunteers.
For more information about the State Emergency Mobilization System, contact ASG at info@asg.sc.edu.
