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The Box

Scene photos, reviewed by a named officer before anything is published — and shared across the departments that ran the call together.

Wall of flame in heavy brush — the kind of photograph this module governs
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A box alarm is who responds together

In fire service vocabulary "the box" already means the predetermined assignment of departments that turn out to an area. That is what this is: the shared photo pool for a mutual aid box. A gallery on one department’s website will never out-engage Facebook. Cross-posting a neighbouring department’s photo, with their attribution, from a call you both ran, is something no competitor selling one department at a time can do.

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Two surfaces, one system

The two-key rule for sharing a scene photographThe owning department's officer grants a photograph into the shared pool. The receiving department's officer separately approves it onto their own pages, against the same checklist. Attribution travels with the photograph and cannot be changed by whoever publishes it.OWNING DEPARTMENTOfficer grants itinto the shared poolRECEIVING DEPARTMENTOfficer approves itonto their own pagesTHE BOXShared poolfor the mutual aid boxCredit travels with the photograph — and cannot be edited by whoever publishes it
Two keys, two officers — and attribution neither can edit
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PIO Desk

One department’s capture, review and publish workflow. Most volunteer departments have no designated Public Information Officer; the chief does it from the truck. This gives a 26-member department the function.
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The Box

The shared pool across the departments on the box. The owning department grants a photo into the pool; the receiving department approves it onto its own pages, with its own officer and the same checklist.
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Attribution that cannot be edited

Credit travels with the photo permanently and cannot be changed by whoever publishes it. Whose fire it was is a real question with real feelings attached.
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A record of every decision

Each release writes an immutable row naming the officer who made it. Photographs taken on duty are department property and may be subject to records retention.
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The guardrail

A named officer, a checklist, and never from an active scene

Publishing requires an attestation a named officer completes: no patients, no deceased, no identifiable minors, no addresses, and the call is no longer active. In 2021 a volunteer public information officer in Connecticut was criminally charged over scene photographs posted to social media. The checklist is the difference between the strongest donor-conversion tool a department has and a liability.

Status — not built yet

  • 01Publishing straight to Facebook and Instagram. This needs Meta’s app review, which is a one-time approval for Halligan Works rather than something each department applies for. It has not been submitted.
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