Preplans are intended to support your specific usage in the field. Therefore, we offer flexibility in how you can use and create preplans within Blazemark.

You can also think of a Blazemark preplan as a web-based "book" about a given site (or event), with respect to pre-incident planning (NFPA 1620, "Standard for Pre-Incident Planning").

Once you get used to Blazemark's power and flexibility, you will be able to get creative in using the app to help you manage your risks.

Preplans can contain any number of the elements shown below. In addition, preplans have a "Site Overview" property that allows you to provide one optional image that could be a site map for a campus or a mall, for example.

The following illustration shows a "campus" style preplan with:

Within a preplan, you can define items that are "outside" of the context of the structure. Maybe other site details, or hazmats on the premise but not in the structure.

Structure preplans can contain any number of the elements shown below:

Typically, preplans contain information on one or more structures. However this is not absolutely necessary, as sometimes you may be preplanning "areas" for example:

Or maybe you have a high-rise with some floors serving similar purposes, and other floors that have unique preplanning needs. It might seem strange at first, but you could break up the single building into multiple structure preplans:

For more information, see related articles on creating preplans and preplan design.