Recent News

Firehouse Solutions is pleased to announce our new and improved website and logo for 2009. After using a successful brand since 2003, our team decided that we needed to boost a new look and feel that better reflects our organization.

The new website allows visitors to subscribe to us through RSS, Twitter, and YouTube. We are also working on many new and exciting features for our customers and will post these updates on our new website.

The website is available via the following link:...

After thorough analysis and testing, Firehouse Solutions will make the following upgrades to our mail server, effective immediately:

- You may now auto-forward messages to AOL and Comcast e-mail addresses - You may now create and manage mailing lists in SmarterMail - Disk storage space for each domain has been increased to 3 gigabytes

These changes we're made possible with our new dedicated server environment. A new mail server was introduced several months ago. This server...

After correcting a few minor issues, the Firefighter Profiles feature is ready for wide release. To manage the profiles, simply log into your Members Area and select Website Management > Profile Management. This will allow you to create profile records and assign which member will have access to update them.

You can also manage Profile Fields and Types under the Field Lists menu in the Members Area. You will want to ensure that you have all of the text and memo fields set before...

After several months of development and testing, our team is pleased to announce our newest feature, Firefighter Profiles. This feature allows a website to portray their bravest to the community and show off the men and women who operate your day-to-day operation. The profiles can be updated within the Members Area by users themselves. Each update will require approval from a website administrator.

The Firefighter Profiles feature supports definable fields, questionnaire, and the ability...

The Firehouse Solutions Team is in the process of moving into a new office. We can now be reached at our new phone number: (301) 475-1900. Our old phone number will continue to automatically forward until the end of the year at which time it will be disconnected. Please take the time to update our contact information. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

We hope that everyone has a safe and happy holiday season!

After significant testing, our team will be performing an upgrade on the e-mail servers beginning October 1, 2008. We are upgrading from SmarterMail 4.3 to SmarterMail 5.5. This process will not result in any loss of information, preferences, or user settings, but it could slighty delay the flow of messages for a brief period while the install is taking place. A server restart is required during the installation process.

SmarterMail 5.5 offers a new optimized interface design, better...

[GoogieSpell]Firehouse Solutions has completed testing and implementation of a new spell checking feature called GoogieSpell. GoogieSpell is an online spell checker powered by Google Labs. It uses a new technology called AJAX and works in all major web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.

The spell checker operates through a dictionary from Google's servers, so it can pick up any mispellings, including names, people, places, and current events. ...

It has been brought to our attention that users are receiving a "Session Expired" message in the Members Area. After further research, we found that this issue is connected to the recent daylight savings time change.

Firehouse Solutions web servers are located in Arizona. Unfortunately, Arizona is one of a few states that does not acknowledge Daylight Savings Time (DST). Therefore, the time change on Sunday morning caused an unanticipated time offset of 1 hour, which broke the session...

LightBox is a new and innovative technology which allows photos to display through an easy-to-use slideshow format. Currently, clicking on thumbnails in a news story or photo gallery results in a browser popup window, which can often be blocked by browsers and ad blocking software. Lightbox avoids using popup windows entirely. Instead, it uses a trendy flash-based system to overlay larger photos on the web page, while darkening the web page itself. Lightbox works in all modern web browsers...

The Firehouse Solutions web team has launched their 100th website into the fire service community, reaching a major milestone that began in 2003. This success can be credited to the hard work and dedication of our web team, the working relationships and trust of our customers, and the support of community citizens and professionals who rely on websites, powered by Firehouse Solutions, for a direct source of news and information.

The family of websites now reaches from coast to coast...