Volunteer Fire Departments

Built for the
All-Volunteer Department.

Your department runs on donated time. The last thing your officers should spend it on is spreadsheets, paper binders, and manual calculations. Axe & Node automates the administrative load so your people can focus on the mission.

✓ From $99/month ✓ 3-hour setup ✓ No IT department needed ✓ Month-to-month
The Volunteer Department Reality

What Your Officers Are Actually Doing

8 hrs
Certification tracking

Manually checking spreadsheets, sending reminder emails, updating expiry dates. One missed cert = significant liability.

7 hrs
LOSAP calculations

Pulling attendance from paper sheets, entering into Excel, running formulas, producing year-end reports that still get disputed.

6 hrs
Drill records & attendance

Collecting sign-in sheets, entering attendance into a spreadsheet, tracking hours for training reports.

5 hrs
Apparatus & gear records

Paper checklists, condition logs, maintenance notes — filed, lost, not searchable when ISO auditors arrive.

~40 hrsper month — manual compliance admin across your officer corps
~4 hrsper month with Axe & Node — dashboards, exceptions, the work that actually needs a human
Built for How You Operate

Features That Match Volunteer Department Reality

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LOSAP Automation

Credits post automatically when drills are finalized and calls are logged. Year-end report is always current and fully auditable.

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Certification Alerts

90-day automated alerts mean you never find out a member's cert expired on scene. Dashboard shows every expiry across all members.

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Drill Management

Take digital attendance, run skill sign-offs, log apparatus usage. Finalize once — LOSAP posts automatically to all attending members.

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Apparatus Checklists

Digital daily checks replace paper logs. Permanent, timestamped records for ISO grading and state inspections.

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Gear Lifecycle

Set expected service life per gear type. Replacement forecasts calculate automatically. Know what's aging before it fails inspection.

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ISO Documentation

Pre-built export reports for every ISO documentation category. Be ready in minutes, not three weeks of scrambling.

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Member Roster

Full roster with status, classification, certifications, gear assignments, and onboarding workflow all in one place.

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Role Permissions

Chiefs see everything. Officers see what they need. Members see their own records. Configure once, adjusts automatically.

"Our pilot department is using Axe & Node to manage LOSAP, certifications, drills, and apparatus. What was manual is now automated — records ready in minutes, not days."
Falconer Fire Department
All-Volunteer · Western New York

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