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Agency Stats:

• Area of coverage: 65.5 square miles
• Population in coverage area: 73,500
• Operations: 5 fire stations, 4 engine companies, 2 ladder companies, 1 Rescue
• Staff: 87 career personnel assigned to 3 shifts (8 Administrative 8-5) and 5 part-time employees
• Implemented Vector Solutions LMS in 2016; Scheduling in 2020

Why Vector Solutions?

“We wanted a Learning Management System (LMS) that could grow with us,” said John White, Apex Fire Department Training Captain. “One that made it easier to follow the rating schedule and provide a true capture of all our completed training. We wanted a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all our training and documentation needs. Vector Solutions LMS (called TargetSolutions when we purchased it) provided all that and more.” 

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Agency Information

• Area of coverage: 70 square miles
• Population in coverage area: 105,000 residents
• Fire Stations: 11
• Staff: 265 employees (247 sworn, 18 non-sworn)
• Implemented Vector Solutions LMS in 2019; Scheduling in 2019

Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue has gained substantial efficiencies and eliminated a lot of paper with the Vector Solutions Learning Management System to assign and deliver training courses, policies and track their ISO and registry hours. In 2019 they added Vector Solutions’ scheduling software to their technology stack to simplify, and add more transparency to, their staff scheduling.

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Vector Solutions released a new and customizable US&R training credential to train and track your team’s initial certification and ongoing annual requirements. Easily combining course materials and task books to provide a US&R credentialing pathway for your team.

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Agency Stats:

• Area of coverage: 108 square miles
• Population in coverage area: 325,000 residents
• Fire Stations: 17
• Staff: 385 uniform; 445 total
• Implemented Vector Solutions LMS in 2015; Evaluations+ in 2021

West Metro Fire Protection District (CO) rolled out their Vector Solutions Learning Management System (LMS) in 2015. While they had a Records Management System (RMS) in place for incident reporting, most of the staff training, credentialing, policy management and reporting (including all their ISO documentation) was a paper-laden, manual process. Implementing the LMS has resulted “huge cost savings” and an improved training operation.

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