Firefighters Emergency vs Active Response
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Firefighters Emergency
Locate over 30,000 fire emergency facilities and equipment across the United States. Search by map, region, state, or address. Save your favorites for quick access.
- Locate 30,000+ fire emergency facilities
- Search by GPS or address
- Map view of facilities
- Filter by region or state
- Save favorite locations
- Offline data availability
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Get the position (GPS or address) of all the fire emergency facilities and equipments in the United States directly to your iPhone, iPad and iPod. The app provides the following fire emergency facilities and equipments: - dry riser inlet; - fire alarm box; - fire extinguisher; - fire flapper; - fire hose; - fire hydrant; - fire water pond; - suction point; - water tank. The app also allows to: - Search in more than 30000 fire emergency facilities and equipments available; - Check the fire emergency facilities and equipments directly from the map; - Search fire emergency facilities and equipments by region, US state, address, street name or geolocation (latitude, longitude - GPS location service supported); - Save your favorites fire emergency facilities and equipments; - If offline, new fire emergency facilities and equipments are missing; - Coverage United States. IMPORTANT NOTE: the app displays all the AVAILABLE fire emergency facilities and equipments provided by OpenStreetMap (http://openstreetmap.org/) and OverpassTurbo (http://overpass-api.de/). If you don't see some data, please understand it is not app fault but a lack of information at the source. Thus, please do not leave a bad review for this kind of issues. The app displays a banner and an interstitial ads to support dev to implement new features.
Active Response
This app enables volunteer firefighters to receive and respond to emergency dispatch calls. It provides a two-way communication link with dispatch, showing call and response status, and delivers situational updates and critical information.
- Receive emergency call outs
- Bi-directional communication with dispatch
- Real-time call and response status
- Situational updates
- Hazmat information
- Critical situation reports
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The Active Response smartphone application allows volunteer firefighters to receive and respond to emergency call outs from their local jurisdiction' s computer aided dispatch system. Once an account is set up, the firefighter has a bi-directional communications link with dispatch showing call and response status. The firefighter can also receive situational updates, hazmat information, and critical situation reports.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Active Response at 2.3 against Firefighters Emergency's 1.0. Active Response also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 20 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Active Response holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Active Response has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Firefighters Emergency's written reviews are positive against 13% of Active Response's.
Firefighters Emergency ships an update every 20 months, Active Response every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Firefighters Emergency | Active Response |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 2.3 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 12.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrea Bisegna | CSI Technology Group |
Customer experience
Firefighters Emergency
Active Response
In-app purchases
Firefighters Emergency
No in-app purchases
Active Response
No in-app purchases
Questions
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