Look What We Have to Work With? More Belittling Volunteers?

I don't know if Chief Bonnee doesn't filter what pops in his head before it comes out his mouth or if he doesn't realize what he's saying?


I asked Chief Bonnee why we only use the
Active911 app as a pager when it could do so much more, he said "look what we have to work with". 
Sounds like more belittling of volunteers like the instructor who refused to teach a BLS class to our volunteers. A class that anyone can take and any 16 year old kid can be an instructor.
Now I'm not sure if he meant the volunteers wouldn't understand how to use the app or if he didn't understand how to use the app?

Why Don't We Use What We Pay For? What Could the Active911 App do for the LMRFD
Active911 can do so much more than just notify firefighters about calls and give them a map. It can show who's responding and most importantly provide situational awareness for every firefighter on the call.

When a call come in the CAD system at fire dispatch sends out an alert to firefighters like this accident at Willow Beach

If we used Active911's potential Firefighters would choose one of the apps buttons like........ 

Responding

Arrived 

Cancel

Available

or

UnAvailable

to show their response status. 

Active911 does currently provides additional information on the call as LMRFD firefighters respond.... In this case it was one car rollover with the driver trapped

The LMRFD does use Active911 map and directions on how to get to the call. It right most of the time.
Once in a while it sends us to the Canadian Border on Highway 93.

We don't use the buttons to show the response type for each of our
firefighter's so the Response Type always says Watch.

It seems like knowing if a volunteer was responding to the station would be important so another volunteer doesn't leave with the fire truck two minutes before he arrives. 

Simply using the apps buttons would show who's responding, 
who's available or unavailable,
and who's arrived.

The chief could switch to the map and actually watch each firefighter respond to the fire station and then respond to the scene.

At fireground it would give everyone situational awareness of where other firefighter's were located in a wildland fire or around a building fire especially at night.

It appears the chief has no interest in advancing our communications because "look what we have to work with"