Create safe and protected communities by preparing for unexpected incidents

A complete system for managing permitting and inspections for fire departments

Accela’s Fire Prevention solution helps modernize inspections, plan review and permit processing so fire staff can focus on protecting the community, not pushing paperwork.

The Civic Application for Fire Prevention comes in three levels: Essentials, Extended and Enterprise, and can be run in the cloud or on your premises. The solution aligns your fire department’s regulatory activities so you can track progress towards goals, streamline inspections and improve visibility for property owners.

Introduction to the Civic Application for Fire Prevention

Benefits

Streamline fire inspections

Simple and complex fire inspections are streamlined when inspectors have access to prior inspection history in the field, can work offline and share inspection results with property owners in real-time – all from an easy-to-use mobile application.

Improve visibility into operations

Improve efficiency and visibility on projects with options for workflow tracking for both back-office staff and property owners that ensures everyone is on the same page, helping reduce status inquiries and lost paperwork.

Improve schedule tracking and communication

Fire captains and supervisors have the option to set up rules to help with inspector scheduling, and ensuring coverage across shifts, fire houses, inspector expertise and even vacation schedules.

Quick installation

Accela Fire Prevention is built with deep domain experience, allowing the system to be set up faster, and with best practices included – helping agencies minimize downtime during a new implementation.

Improve cost recovery

Increase cost-recovery when property owners are prompted to pay fees on time with options for automatic notifications, and paying fees online is easier than ever through the online public portal.

Fire Prevention Levels

The Accela Civic Application for Fire Prevention is a pre-packaged solution built for fire departments, and offered at three levels: Essentials, Extended, or Enterprise.

The levels allow you to choose the best option for your budget and needs, while gaining best practices from Accela’s fire prevention expertise.

Each level features industry-leading tools, including a modern mobile inspection app, permit processing in the cloud, and a public portal to improve access for property owners.

Essentials

Fire Prevention Essentials is perfect for smaller agencies, or those that want to get online and mobile quickly. The pre-built functionality included in Essentials allows your department to leverage best practices to be installed quickly, and on budget.

Extended

Fire Prevention Extended is best for fire departments faced with complex workflows and operations across divisions. The Extended level builds on Essentials to offer a higher level of customization, workflow tracking and automation to digitize tedious processes that lead to backlogs and errors in data.

Enterprise

The Fire Prevention Enterprise offering is best suited for larger and more complex fire departments with specialized needs. It is fully-featured and offers greater flexibility, extensibility, and customization over time.

Features

Online citizen portal
Property owners can submit fire permit applications, schedule occupancy inspections, pay fees and track the progress of their project in the online portal, helping reduce the burden on administrative staff in manually processing requests.
Built-in reporting
Fire department leaders can utilize pre-built and customizable reports to track department goals on inspection coverage, staffing levels and generally how the department is performing across district, station and program.
GIS mapping
Utilize ESRI’s ArcGIS Online to produce interactive maps, with options for buffering around hot spots and areas of concern and inspection routing – making location-based data easier to understand.
Mobile
An easy-to-use, modern mobile app included with each level offers pre-built checklists, offline mode, the ability to view past inspection data while in the field and options for tracking inventory and other specialized inspection types. Available for iOS and Android.
Process automation
Process automation available in the Extended and Enterprise levels help automate tedious tasks and complex workflows that result in long processing timelines for fire permit reviews and lagging inspection rates.

Testimonials

“With the implementation of Accela, we save administrative time and provide accurate billing reports for the management team.”

— Jackie Lankhorst, Permit Technician, City of Moreno Valley

“With Accela, Moreno Valley has seen a 95% reduction in required labor, and an increase in productivity.”