On-Scene Xplorer

The Fire Bureau for the Lancaster City (Lancaster County, PA) selected On-Scene Xplorer for its mapping and pre-incident planning software needs. The career department is one of the busiest departments in Pennsylvania and serves a population of over 50,000.

“I spoke to one of the firefighters the other day and he told me the first day On-Scene Xplorer was in the engine they had a call in a somewhat confusing townhouse complex,” said John Fix, President of Iron Compass. “He punched in the address, saw the actual location and drove right there. He said it was a huge help since the call was at night.”

Iron Compass will also assist the department in unitizing the occupancy data from Firehouse in On-Scene Xplorer. “We have a conversion utility in place, but oftentimes when the data was entered, the addresses were not standardized. So we’ll help scrub the data and provide the conversion utility to the department.”