We've made it into Issue 57 of the international Technical Rescue Magazine. Here's a snippet:

Communications and team management are drastically improved by providing a central information store that members can access from home, work, or their mobile handsets in the field. As a team enter their records, the software builds a profile of each rescuer,tracking their qualifications, experience, training hours, and skill-sets automatically. continue reading

You can read the entire piece, featuring a technical rescue unit in our press area.

One of our most requested features is a spell checker! People want their incident and exercise reports spell checked before submission. We believe that this isn't an issue for our application, it's a feature of your web browser. We recommend our users install a plug-in for their browser that will spell check all their pages, and will allow you to build up a dictionary of custom words and spellings unique to you.





Internet Explorer
We recommend the Google Toolbar (turn on autofix).

Firefox Install Firefox
Already built-in spell checker - we recommend you get the right language pack for the Firefox dictionary plugin.

Chrome Install Chrome
Already built-in spell-checker!

We've made it into this issue of Emergency Service magazine in Ireland. Excellent coverage.

'Decisions for Heroes' is a new web-based software application that saves lives by helping rescue teams record and analyse their rescue operations and training programmes. First launched in Ireland in May 2009 to help rescue teams record and analyse their rescue operations and training exercises, ‘Decisions For Heroes’ held its official UK launch at the Emergency Services Show in Coventry in November 2009.

You can read the entire piece in our press area.

Our continually increasing worldwide team has jumped another country boundary to Canada! With the nation currently hosting the Winter Olympics, we're delighted to introduce you to The Canadian International Rescue Organization (CIRO) and Red Deer Search and Rescue (RDSAR) in Alberta. Decisons for Heroes is now helping rescue teams to save more lives across Europe, the United States and now Canada. Jamie Schur, Planning Section Chief for CIRO had this to say:

"With this application we are taking a giant leap forward! The ability to track not only individual training and currency of that training but all aspects of mission readiness. Being able to have one place to go from anywhere in the world to access all of our team data is indispensible. Thanks D4H." --Jamie Schur, Planning Section Chief for CIRO

If you are part of a rescue team and would like to try out Decisions for Heroes yourself why not contact our Lead Rescue Team Contact, Donnchadh Mac Cobb. You can get him at donnchadh.maccobb@decisionsforheroes.com.

We sent an earlybird notification email to our mailing list and Facebook followers - and now we're opening it up to all users. You're invited to our first D4H Live event. This is an opportunity to put questions to us live online and we'll answer them using a live streaming video link on our website.

If you've had any burning questions you'd like to know about D4H, either as a service, our future plans, or about how we run the business please tune in and ask them live. As part of the event Donnchadh and myself we will demo a first look at some of the new features in our upcoming release and we'll introduce Paul who is our newest in-country team contact based in Colorado, United States.

8pm (GMT) Wednesday, February 24th 2010.



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