A wildland fire burning along a dark ridge at night, its glow lighting the smoke above the treeline
Fire · EMS · Search and rescue · Emergency management

Accountability without
the roll call.

A manual PAR ties up critical radio airtime and leaves Incident Command tracking locations from memory. When every responder broadcasts real-time position data directly from the device in their pocket, continuous personnel accountability is on the board before anyone keys a mic.

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Accountability
Continuous position
Clients
ATAK · iTAK · TAK Aware
Doctrine
Aligned to NIMS
After-action
MARS, every plan
Where the work actually happens

Most of the ground you work at three in the morning does not have a street number on it.

Wildland, water, rural and large-site incidents have no addresses to give, and a big structure stops having useful ones the moment crews are above the second floor. Dispatch can send a unit to a place. It cannot tell you where that unit is standing twenty minutes later. That is the gap a shared map closes, and it is the same gap whether the call is a brush fire, a missing person or a warehouse.

On the radio

A manual PAR costs a channel and a minute.

A roll call is an interruption by design: everybody stops, one company at a time answers, and command writes down a number that is already going stale. Position reporting runs in the background instead, so a PAR confirms what the board is showing rather than assembling it from scratch. The report still gets made, on the same schedule and by the same person. It just is not the only place the information lives.

Mutual aid

Everybody arrives on a different system.

The second and third alarm bring departments running their own radios, their own dispatch and their own vendor. None of that has to change for them to appear on your map. TAK is an open standard, the clients are free, and a neighboring department joins your server with the phones its members are already carrying. No license to buy on their side, and nothing on yours to rip out.

Organization

Label it the way the incident is already organized.

Callsigns on the map read the way the incident already reads on the board: by Division where the assignment is geographic, by Group where it is functional. Nothing here asks incident command to learn a second structure, and nothing replaces the tactical worksheet. It puts the positions behind it.

A crew working a night burn from a hilltop, an aircraft above a lit landing pad with the fire front along the treeline beyond
One picture, whoever shows up

The map is the thing everybody can join.

Your server is yours. Members join it from ATAK on Android, iTAK on iPhone, or TAK Aware, all published free by the TAK Product Center. Fire and EMS run heavily on iPhones, and iTAK is the reason that is not a problem. Nothing about the picture depends on everyone buying the same thing.

Night operations · the ground has no addresses
What you actually run

Turnkey TAK Deployment, No IT Department Required.

Volunteer, rural, and mid-sized agencies rarely have dedicated IT staff. We handle server infrastructure, updates, and maintenance so your agency can focus purely on command and operations.

After the incident

The report largely writes itself.

Position history is recorded automatically throughout the incident—not reconstructed from vague memory days later. MARS replays the complete operational timeline: scrub GPS tracks, audit responder movements, and export certified logs directly into standard file formats.

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What it costs

Transparent, Upfront Pricing.

$162.00
Per user, annual
at 5 seats
$90.00
Per user, annual
at 50 seats
$0
Setup fee

One plan, billed by the year, with the rate per user falling as the seat count rises. A twelve-person volunteer company pays $1,404.00 annually. A fifty-seat department pays $4,500.00. Every threshold is published on the pricing table, so you can size this against a line item, or against a grant application, without booking a call with anybody. MARS is included at every seat count.

Response technology is generally an eligible equipment category under AFG, and it is worth positioning as operational equipment that improves accountability rather than as a software purchase. The minimum is five seats, and a volunteer company of twelve runs the same server software a metro runs.

First Response

Know where your people are.

Managed TAK servers priced per user, billed annually, with the rate falling as the team grows. MARS included on every server.

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