# Justin Brundage | Fire Department Consulting, Analysis, and Software

## Positioning

A chief officer who builds software, not a software vendor who found the fire service. Standards of cover, community risk assessment, response performance analysis, apparatus replacement planning, grant data, and custom software for fire departments. Delivered in weeks rather than quarters, and priced for volunteer and combination departments that do not carry a consulting budget.

## Biography

Justin Brundage is an active Assistant Chief at Berwyn Fire Company in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He has been in the fire service for thirty years and is still on the roster: he runs calls, sits through budget meetings, and has written reports that got turned down. He is not a retired consultant describing the fire service in the past tense.

He also spent a career in financial services, which is the part of the background that matters when a local government is arguing about a twenty-year cost curve. He is co-founder of Incident Management Technology, where he builds PAMS, PRISM, EACfleet, and a portfolio of tools for departments that large vendors have never served.

## Why the practice exists

The analysis departments need to justify staffing, replace apparatus, and defend a budget is available, but historically only from firms charging six figures on a timeline measured in quarters. Most of the country's 29,452 departments will never write that check. They go without, and then they make million-dollar decisions on instinct. This practice does the same work in weeks, at a price a volunteer department can actually pay.

## Practice Area: Assess

Know what your data actually says. Most departments hold years of response data they have never been able to read.

Typical situations: the local government asked why response times went up and there is no defensible answer; accreditation or a standards-of-cover review is coming and the last one was done in 2016; NFIRS went away and NERIS records may not be clean; the busiest station is clearly overloaded but it cannot be proven on paper.

Services:
1. Standards of Cover & Community Risk Assessment. Full community risk profile, service-area analysis, response time performance against NFPA 1710 and 1720, station and staffing findings, and a board-ready report with the methodology documented. $12,000 to $25,000, 6 to 10 weeks.
2. Response Performance Analytics. Turnout, travel, and total response time analysis by station, unit, hour, and incident type, with trend lines, outlier investigation, and an automated monthly report that generates itself from then on. $4,000 to $9,000.
3. NERIS Transition & Data Health. Record audit, mapping, and cleanup so the new national reporting standard produces usable data. $2,500 to $6,000, 2 to 3 weeks.

## Practice Area: Fund

Get the number that holds up in the meeting. A pumper starts at a million dollars and takes four years to arrive.

Services:
1. Apparatus Replacement & Fleet Economics. Unit-by-unit economic assessment from actual maintenance and expense history, replacement-year recommendations with the cost curve shown, a funded multi-year capital plan, and a presentation version for the local government meeting. Starting at $500, 3 to 5 weeks.
2. Grant Data Packages. The data and narrative support behind AFG and SAFER applications. Starting at $2,500, 2 to 3 weeks.
3. Local Government & Board Briefing Materials. The deck and the one-pager, built so the numbers survive questions. Starting at $1,500.

## Practice Area: Build

No vendor will build software for a thirty-person department. Eighty-two percent of American fire departments are all or mostly volunteer, and the software industry serves the other eighteen percent.

Services:
1. Custom Tools & Department Software. A working tool built to the department's workflow, hosted where it chooses, data in its own accounts, with training, a one-page runbook, and ownership of the code. $6,000 to $15,000 per build, 2 to 4 weeks.
2. SOG / SOP Modernization. Review, rewrite, and structure of guidelines so they are current and findable. $5,000 to $12,000, 3 to 6 weeks.
3. Back-Office Automation. Removing the hand-built monthly spreadsheet work. $4,000 to $9,000, 2 to 3 weeks.


## Frequently asked questions

Q: Who is Justin Brundage?
A: An active Assistant Chief at Berwyn Fire Company in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with thirty years in the fire service, a prior career in financial services, and co-founder of Incident Management Technology.

Q: What does the practice do?
A: Standards of cover and community risk assessment, response performance analysis, NERIS data health, apparatus replacement and capital planning, grant data support, board briefing materials, custom department software, SOG modernization, and back-office automation.

Q: How is this different from a traditional fire consultant?
A: The work is done by a serving chief officer rather than a firm, in weeks rather than quarters, at a fraction of the usual fee, and the department owns the resulting tools and data.

Q: What does it cost?
A: Engagements run from $500 for apparatus and fleet economics to $25,000 for a full standards of cover and community risk assessment.

Q: How do I start?
A: A twenty-minute call, no deck and no pitch. Email justin@justinbrundage.com or use https://justinbrundage.com/call.

## Contact

justin@justinbrundage.com
Chester County, Pennsylvania
https://linkedin.com/in/justinbrundage