I've just uploaded 3 weeks worth of database resturucturing and optimisation. We're ready to scale! It's time to bringing in some more teams. If you're a member of any of the following and would like a beta account - make contact :-) Coast Guard Mountain Rescue Cave Rescue Civil Defence [...] Read More »

Rob Boles points me to the Stages Of A Disaster as outlined by Ray Schurfield. Rob looks at how social media can be used at each stage. Decisions For Heroes will focus initially on the first & last. Heroic (Immediate) - person takes actions to protect lives and property. Social Circle =[...] Read More »

A recent post on RescueTech.org has brought a flurry of sign-ups using our invite code. RescueTech is a great source of knowledge on all things rescue from around the world. I'm glad to welcome the contributors to Decisions For Heroes and look forward to your feedback. -Robin.[...] Read More »

We're adding a MISPER (Missing Person) category on casualties at the request of Dog Search teams. Let's open a discussion on how all countries and services define casualties. Here's a starting list of categories from the UK. Despondent Dementia Alzheimer Type Runaway Lost Mental h[...] Read More »

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES (Decisions For Heroes) - UK blogger Ian Delaney pointed me to Coole Immersive who are building serious games to help oil riggers learn to do their job. It reduced the chance of being involved in an incident from 50% to <5% in a riggers first year. A great achievement. [...] Read More »

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES (Decisions For Heroes) - A brilliant story from Reuters in Germany... Firefighters called to a blaze at an apartment building in a southern German town were astonished to discover a fully equipped extremely drunk imposter in their ranks, police said on Thursday. On hea[...] Read More »

What a few weeks! We've lots in the oven at the moment, but as of today we deployed the new dashboard and a whole range of other features... Dashboard New simpler design & styling. Activities separated out into categories. Green Ticks for quick view's of what to attend. Charts m[...] Read More »

Dashboard & Members Profiles (Only your own: Members. Everyones: Member+,Editor,Owner. ) You will have spotted this chart above appear in release 77. Let me tell you a bit about how it works... So first off, they're the last 12 months along the bottom (0hrs on a month, no letter). The gr[...] Read More »