Cheney fire department to pursue new call software

The Cheney City Council gave its blessings to Fire Chief Tom Jenkins to pursue a contract with a software company that would bring the fire department’s medical response information system into the 21st century.

Jenkins said software and fire department applications company ESO Solutions has bought out the department’s current software provider Fire House, and that subsequently that software will be phased out. The department budgeted funds to improve its call program from “dial up to flip phone,” but entering into a contract to obtain the ESO software would move that to the “smart phone” leve...