NERIS reporting
that finishes same-shift.
All 13 detail modules, validation before you submit, and direct submission to the NERIS data exchange — from the same place your crew already files the run.
30 days, no credit card, no sales call.
NFIRS is closed. NERIS is the system.
NERIS — the National Emergency Response Information System, run by FSRI — replaced NFIRS after roughly forty years. NFIRS stopped accepting calendar-year 2026 incidents on January 1, edits to prior-year records closed at the end of that month, and the system went offline for everyone in February.
Reporting to NERIS is voluntary at the federal level, with one significant exception: departments taking Assistance to Firefighters Grant money agreed to provide data to NERIS for the grant’s performance period. Several states also collect through their own system and forward on your behalf, so check what your state fire marshal expects before assuming you submit directly.
Firedesk submits directly to the NERIS data exchange, and carries the NERIS V1 Data Exchange Compatible designation.
How it works
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Link your stations and units once
A setup wizard finds your department's NERIS entity, pulls the stations and units already registered, and matches them to yours by name. Add an engine six months later and Firedesk asks which NERIS unit it is rather than quietly registering a second one — duplicates in the federal database have to be hunted down and deleted.
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The report fills itself from dispatch
When your CAD posts the call, times, responding apparatus, and the full dispatch payload are already on the incident before anyone sits down. What's left is the narrative and the module-specific detail.
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Validation happens at your desk
Approving an incident runs the NERIS pre-submit checks first. Missing fields come back listed by module, each one a click from the dialog that fixes it — including any apparatus that would be reported without a linked NERIS unit. You find out before NERIS does.
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Submission is automatic on approval
Approve the incident and it goes. Status comes back as submitted, accepted, rejected, or failed, and it's tracked on the incident. A rejection names its reason and the incident can be reopened, fixed, and resubmitted.
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Corrections patch, they don't duplicate
Correcting an accepted incident reads the current NERIS record first to learn the identity of every nested item, then patches section by section. You get one corrected incident in the federal record, not two competing ones.
All 13 modules
Every module NERIS asks for.
Attached as the call needs them, not as a wall of empty forms. A trash fire doesn’t ask for patient records, and an incident where you gave aid isn’t held to modules you were never in a position to fill.
- Dispatch
- PSAP from the FCC registry, determinant codes, call times
- Fire
- Origin, heat source, spread, detection and suppression, values
- Medical
- One record per patient — demographics, care, transport
- Hazmat
- Release, container, mitigation, plus per-chemical records
- Risk reduction
- Alarms, suppression systems, cooking suppression
- Tactic timestamps
- Water on fire, primary search, ventilation
- Weather
- Temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation on scene
- Parcel
- Land use, construction, occupancy
- Rescues
- Civilian and firefighter records, one per person
- Exposures
- Other structures the fire reached
- Emerging hazards
- ESS, solar PV, CSST
- Vehicles
- Year/make/model, occupants, driver, insurance — VIN scanner
Hazmat carries a nested per-chemical record, which is the thirteenth. Mutual aid, unit responses, and incident type coding are part of every submission rather than optional modules.
What Firedesk doesn’t do
- Enroll you in NERIS.
- Enrollment happens in the NERIS portal, and it has to — it’s your department’s relationship with FSRI, not ours. Firedesk confirms the enrollment is active, then handles everything after it.
- Submit to your state system.
- Firedesk submits to NERIS. If your state runs its own collection and forwards from there, ask your state fire marshal how they want to receive it — the answer varies by state and we’d rather you check than take our word.
- Backfill your NFIRS history into NERIS.
- Nothing can — NFIRS is closed and NERIS starts from 2026. What Firedesk does do is import your old incidents from a spreadsheet so your own reporting still covers the years before you switched.
Try it on a real call.
$49 a month, every feature, however many members you have. Connect your CAD, run one call through it, and see what the report looks like before you decide.