The operating system for the fire service,
built with one of its own.
Everything the department runs on — roster and staffing, apparatus, training and compliance, live CAD dispatch, and an incident command board that takes over the moment a call drops. Free and open source — self-host it today, at any size. Fully managed hosting is coming soon.
Software that can't be
bought out from under you.
Across the fire service, departments are watching their software bills double and triple after private-equity buyouts — then learning that years of incident records are trapped inside a platform they no longer control. OpenFirehouse is built so that can't happen to you. Not as a promise — as a structure. Two of these guarantees are already real today: the platform is open source, and your data exports in one click. The pricing commitments take effect with our managed-hosting service, launching soon.
Your data is always yours
One click exports your department's complete records — incidents, exposures, the legal record — any time. Even with no active subscription. Even after you cancel. There's no export fee, no "contact sales to leave," no hostage situation.
Open source, so we can't lock you out
The entire platform is published on GitHub under AGPL v3. Any department can run it free, forever, on its own servers. We couldn't hold your records ransom if we wanted to — the code is yours to keep running, no matter what.
Your price will be capped — in writing
When paid managed hosting launches, a paid tier's price will be able to rise at most once a year, by no more than inflation (CPI) or 5%, whichever is greater, with 60 days' notice. The free Independent tier stays zero-cost, and its size limits only ever widen — never narrow. It'll be in the license, not a sales rep's promise.
No per-seat fees. No demo wall. No acquirer.
Managed hosting will use flat, published pricing by department size — no per-seat fees, no demo wall, no surprise invoice. When it launches, the standard tiers will be priced right on the page; only the largest enterprise departments get a custom quote. OpenFirehouse is independent and built by Open Scaffold Labs in coordination with Matt Lavin, an active fire captain — no private-equity owner waiting to "optimize" your bill after you've migrated everything in.
Switching this year? Let's plan your NERIS move.
NFIRS has been retired and every U.S. department is moving to NERIS in 2026. Self-host OpenFirehouse today, or get on the list for managed hosting — and you'll never be held hostage by your software again.
OpenFirehouse was built by Open Scaffold Labs in coordination with Matt Lavin, an active fire captain with the Bayonne Fire Department in New Jersey — drawing on his working knowledge of how a firehouse runs — designed around what departments actually need and use, day to day. Every screen is shaped by real firehouse operations: staffing the rigs, locking the run list, chasing cert deadlines, and taking command the moment the call drops — not by what looks good in a sales demo.
One fireground. The whole toolkit.
OpenFirehouse runs the house. Its companions ride in the cab and work the hazmat call.
FireHazmat
The offline hazmat reference and incident command tool — the complete ERG 2024 dataset, isolation zones, and evacuation mapping, in the cab and at the command post.
Visit FireHazmat →OpenFirehouse Mobile
The apparatus view, installed to the iPad home screen as an app: when a call drops it raises the size-up — route, the scene overhead, weather, and every unit's live position, with the command board at arm's length. A dedicated native iPad app is in development; today it runs as an installable web app (PWA).
See it in the demo →Open Scaffold Labs
One framework, any vertical. OpenFirehouse is the flagship — fire service, public safety, and beyond, on one shared, open foundation.
Explore the platform →Put the house
under command.
Open the live demo and ride along with Maplewood VFD — or clone it and run your own station tonight.