Site access · $60/year per agency

Box cards, incidents, and books for your agency

Site access is the MABDB record your members already expect on a call: the box card, the incident it starts, and the book that says how your agency operates. An agency administrator sets a password from the email we send, then adds a login for each member.

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Box cards

Keep every alarm card for the agency in one list, and open the one you need by department.

Active cards, cards waiting for approval, and cards that have gone inactive.
Box number, location or area, alarm type, division, effective date, and the date a card goes inactive.
Alarm levels with the companies due in each resource column: engines, tenders, trucks, squads, EMS, chiefs, special equipment, and change of quarters.
First, second, and third choices for an interdivisional request, plus the notes kept on the card.
Export the card to Excel.
Begin an incident from the card. Choose the alarm level and MABDB brings in the companies due through that level.

Department name Sample Fire Department	Box alarm type Structure fire	Effective date 3/1/2026	MABAS division 8
Box alarm # 12-3	Location or area North of Main St	Authorized signature

Alarm level	Engines	Trucks	EMS	Chiefs
Still	Sample	Sample	Sample	Sample
Box	North East	North	Medic 1	Battalion 1
2nd	West South	East	Medic 2	Division 8

Example of a box card. Names and assignments are sample data.

Incidents

Start from a box card or add an incident on its own. Command stays on one screen while the alarm builds.

A list you can filter and sort by incident number, name, agency, alarm level, address, and city.
Incident numbers assigned by year as each incident is opened from a card.
Checklist you can check off, built from the agency’s default checklist.
Assignments such as Requested, plus the default assignments your agency keeps on its profile. Move a resource from one assignment to another.
Resources by type and agency, with a personnel count.
Command details: incident command, operations, safety officer, water supply, address, and notes.
A running log. The first entry is written when command starts, and you add events as the incident changes.
Export Log saves that log of incident events as a spreadsheet or a text file.

Establish command

Confirm water supply

Request the box alarm

Announce benchmark

Example of incident command. The checklist, assignments, resources, details, and log sit behind the same buttons.

Books

Put the agency book where members can open it, search it, and follow a guideline on scene.

One or more books for the agency, listed by name.
A table of contents organized by section, with each guideline’s number and title.
Search across the guidelines in a book.
Guideline pages your agency writes and maintains.
A direct link to a book. The book and its guidelines open without signing in, so a station computer or a shared link can land on the right page.

Operations book

Response

1.1 Accountability 1.2 Mayday

Command

2.1 Assuming command 2.2 Transfer of command

Example of a book’s table of contents. Search sits above the sections on the live page.

Who it is for

MABAS member agencies.
An agency administrator who receives the password link and then creates logins for the rest of the agency.
Members who need the card, the incident, and the book. Scheduling is a separate add-on.

Learn more about the scheduling add-on

Site access is $60 per year for each agency

Payment is an annual check from the agency. The address and contact are on the pricing page.

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