What Does FBS Do?
The FBS system provides for the tracking and summarizing of expenses and responsibility for fires. The primary purpose of the system is to collect and assemble the information needed to request reimbursement from various agencies for fire expenses, as well as determine the amounts owed to any entity providing resources.
Incident information is downloaded automatically from IRWIN and provides the basis for incident reporting, cost estimating, and expense billing.
A core feature of FBS is the ability for Fire Departments and other cooperators to submit bills for the expenses incurred on an incident or project. Equipment expenses must conform to the equipment list and rates established in an approved rate agreement. Personnel and miscellaneous expenses are also included.
Rate agreements for each cooperator include the available equipment and rates charged when entering the equipment on an expense bill.
FBS automatically downloads incidents from IRWIN as well as updating the incident when an update occurs in IRWIN. Out of State incidents can also be downloaded when needed.
A new FBS Module allows for cooperators to create expense bills for projects using the same format and rate agreement used by incident billing.
The invoicing process provides a method for the State to bundle bills from multiple cooperators into a single invoice to the responsible party such as the Forest Service or BLM. All supporting documents and attachments are also included in the packet to be submitted with the invoice.
FBS includes a variety of reports which allow for ad-hoc reporting on the incident, project, billing and invoicing data in the system, as well as administrative reports on user activity and other items.
Users with access to FBS are assigned one or more Roles in the system, which controls which features and data are accessible to them. For example, users associated with a fire department can only see their own data and cannot edit bills once they have been submitted to the State.
Who Uses FBS?
