Blazemark® pre-planning

“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”

That’s what General Dwight D. Eisenhower had to say about being prepared.

And at Blazemark, we couldn’t agree more.

CRITICAL DATA WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST

When you are planning for an emergency, the most important thing to remember is this: the very definition of an “emergency” is that it is unexpected.

Blazemark pre-planning by the Numbers

Structures+ Pre-planned

MM Square Feet

BN US$ R&D/ Manufacturing

Blazemark Pre-planning System

Core Blazemark Features

Intuitive Pre-planning

Blazemark is incredibly easy to use, you can develop pre-planning in a matter of minutes. Include only what is needed, add more info over time. Blazemark makes the complex simple.

Mobile Friendly

No software to download, Blazemark is a cloud-based web application for use on any device with a modern web browser (desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone).

Photos, Images, Videos, Files

Extend your preplan documentation with an unlimited amount of photos, videos, or attachments. Annotate your photos, diagrams, maps and floor plans.

Secure Access

Security starts with demanding high-strength passwords and encrypted website pages. Higher-level “your eyes only” secure information and files can be restricted to a select number of your users.

Mutual Aid Pre-planning

Freely share preplans with neighboring first responder groups. Whether it is business sharing with local  fire departments (FDs), or FDs sharing with neighboring FDs.

Integrated Maps

Intuitive use of maps showing preplan with staging areas, water supplies, FDCs, structures. Virtually anything can be added to the map using precise GPS coordinates.

No CAD Drawings!

Sure, you can do CAD if you like, but the majority of our FFs simply markup easily-available floor plans and site maps, and add important information to the map. There’s a lot more to good preplanning than just a floor plan.

Powerful Yet Simple

Common structures can be easily managed via a “template” system to control typical information elements needed. Useful for common things like strip malls, garden apartments, etc.

NFPA

NFPA Compliant

Blazemark adheres to the NFPA-1660 specification to ensure your efforts are in compliance with good practices. (This new spec incorporates 1620).

IFC Section 404

Blazemark is perfect for adding your approved fire safety and evacuation plan plus creating Emergency Action Plans (EAPs) a.k.a., Incident Action Plans (IAPs).

Workplace Violence Part II

This is Part II of the uncomfortable topic on Workplace Violence Do your incident response plans (e.g. Site Security Plans, Emergency Action Plans, Emergency Response Plans, or other appropriate plans) cover emergency coordination activities? How is the response...

Workplace Violence Part 1

We’re going to begin a multipart discussion on an uncomfortable topic, “Workplace Violence” in today’s post.  Workplace violence can run the gamut of a co-worker or student having a bad day and barricading themselves in an office, to the more horrific events...

Weather Related Emergencies

With the severe weather that has been around, I thought this would be a good time to talk about weather related emergencies, training using tabletop scenarios  prior to an event and the use of Blazemark® pre plans for your facilities. Often times, we hear great...

Preplanning Pays the Best Dividends

One of the points that we keep hearing from clients is, “Preplanning pays the best dividends." It is the least expensive thing that can be done and pays off with the best return on investment. Most companies cannot insure for their R&D efforts, so actively...

Know Before You Go

In Their Own Words: Know Before You Go  Here is an excellent video that talks about the reasons that preplanning is so critical. Listen as Jack Murphy (author of a Fire Engineering article "Concrete Tilt-Up Buildings: What You See on the Outside Is Not What You Get on...

Response to Facilities Equipped With Specialty Suppression Systems

Industrial Fire World Spring 2020 Greg Jakubowski, P.E., CSP, FSFPEINDUSTRIAL FACILITIES often present hazards unique to their field of endeavor. These risks require facilities be equipped with specialized fire suppression or detection systems...

Concerns of Spraying Flammable & Other Sanitizing Agents for COVID-19

Thoughts from Greg Jakubowski (P.E., CSP, FSFPE)I have heard, and have had my own concerns regarding the use of various pressurized sprayers for "disinfecting" emergency vehicles and other confined spaces using materials that are flammable. My take, and you are...

One More Reason To Have a Preplan…

Crews fighting NuStar blaze found locked gates, inactive fire suppression, officials say. Matthias Gafni Oct. 18, 2019 As firefighters descended on the volatile blaze engulfing two giant tanks at a fuel-storage facility in Crockett on Tuesday, they reached the front...

Hydraulic oil fire: Inside the realm of hot work, hydraulics, recovery at Tyson

Full article here. Five weeks after the smoke thinned from a hydraulic oil fire that knocked out operations at the Tyson cattle processing plant near Holcomb, the details of a mysterious flash that ignited the blaze remain hazy. The reconstruction process is underway,...

Guide to taking your fire preplan to the age of Star Trek

Train wreck, working commercial fire, plane crash, terrorist act, active shooter, hazmat or just a plain regional public event like a state fair or concert…how do you communicate pre-incident plans across emergency disciplines, government support agencies and NGO’s?...