Crisis Track vs Bridge4PS

Crisis Track helps a community conduct damage assessments and process FEMA grant applications by integrating disaster management into an organization’s typical disaster workflows - clearing roads, inspecting buildings, maintaining parks, and mapping the community. The consolidation of these activities provides the emergency manager with a community-wide view of disaster management operations. Crisis Track Features include: Preliminary Damage Assessment - consistently conduct a preliminary damage assessment with little or no team training. Road Closures - capture debris and damage information due to closures on roadways and bridges Force Labor and Equipment Cost Tracking - accumulate disaster costs into the FEMA Preliminary Damage Assessment forms based on preloaded rates. Emergency Management Task Tracking - track typical and atypical emergency management tasks to help you keep appraised of their status. Executive View – provide your leadership with real-time updates on disaster operations, current damage assessments, and FEMA declaration thresholds. Dynamic Forms – update the in-field mobile apps upon request should your information needs change. Flexible Licensing – provide unlimited access to your departments and partner organizations The Crisis Track system will enhance your emergency management operations for a faster, more efficient, more collaborative disaster management process. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Bridge 4 Public Safety (Bridge4PS) provides powerful collaboration tools in a secure environment dedicated for first responders and other public safety personnel. Bridge4PS was launched by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide public safety with a secure and interoperable collaboration platform. Features include messaging, file sharing, picture/video sharing, audio and video conferencing inside a dedicated public safety platform that supports multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional collaboration. Whether for pre-planned events, daily operations or incident response, Bridge4PS provides the tools first responders and other public safety professionals need to improve real-time operational communications and interoperability.