The Comprehensive Guide to Selecting a Fire Station Alerting System

Enabling You to Handle Life-Critical Situations Quickly and Safely

PURVIS Systems is a technology solutions partner with 45+ years of experience in the public safety industry that develops, implements, modernizes, and maintains life-critical public safety software and hardware solutions for fire departments, dispatch centers, and emergency medical services.

PURVIS’ Fire Station Alerting System™ is an IP-based alerting solution designed to automate the process of alerting fire and rescue personnel, enhance communications, and decrease response times. Its rich features, functionality, hardware, and software proactively support the day-to-day operations and environmental health, comfort, and safety of first responders. Our public safety software and hardware integrates seamlessly with a community’s computer-aided dispatch system (CAD) and is able to automatically and instantaneously deliver incident details in a way that is tailored to the needs of fire and rescue personnel.

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Fill out the form below to get your complimentary copy of our eBook, The Comprehensive Guide to Selecting a Fire Station Alerting System. You’ll learn about the critical system components you should consider when selecting a fire station alerting system. By the end, you’ll know what the right options for your particular station might look like based on the specific needs and nuances of your fire and rescue personnel.

Automated Voice Dispatch

Announcements can be automatically broadcast over your existing radio network via natural sounding speech converted from dispatch data. Alerts will be simultaneously delivered to the fire stations dispatched for a call.

Fire Station Alerting Software and Hardware

All fire stations required for a specific event are alerted simultaneously via your existing data network. Incident data can delivered to a variety of station device types creating redundancy and ensuring personnel are properly informed.

Mobile Alerting

Our system is uniquely sensitive to the communication needs of emergency personnel, and can integrate into the alerting process via multiple channels to ensure individuals are alerted no matter where they may be located.

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Our clients include New York City Fire Department (FDNY); Boston Fire Department; District of Columbia; Charleston County, SC, DuPage County, IL, Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD); Kitsap County, WA; Ft. Collins, CO; Williamson County, TX; Jacksonville, FL; and Pittsburgh, PA.

"The primary reason that we selected PURVIS is due to their system flexibility, particularly its ability fully operate within our security scheme. Their design and implementation teams were thorough and efficient and communicated frequently and effectively throughout the design and implementation process."

- Terry Purvis, Assistant Director of Technology Emergency Communications - Williamson County, TX

With PURVIS’ Fire Station Alerting System™, a large city fire department in the northeast decreased response times by over 1 minute.

"The PURVIS FSAS™ has performed flawlessly on every dispatch while saving valuable time. PURVIS effectively integrated with our fiber network, radio system, mapping and audio systems to provide our fire fighters the vital data needed to meet each response."

- Joseph Brooks, Radio Supervisor - Boston Fire Department

Within the first 3 hours of operation with PURVIS’ Fire Station Alerting System™, a regional dispatch center in the southeast went from 79.41% NFPA-compliant to 100% NFPA-compliant.