RVFD App · Screen board

Current vs Proposed

The app has not been changed. The left column is the app as it runs in the simulator today; the right column is the proposal, drawn at the same 402 × 874.

2026-10-23 · Expo SDK 56 · build 1.0.0 (7) · iPhone 17 simulator, signed out

The whole change in one strip

Today · 6 tabs

Home FOG Apparatus Incident Radio Admin

Admin is a settings area occupying a field slot, and it duplicates rows that already exist in the Settings sheet behind the gear.

Proposed · 4 tabs + gear

Today Incident Reference Radio Settings

Four places a firefighter works, plus one gear on every header for the things nobody works in.

01

Home becomes Today

Same screen position, different job. Today answers "what needs doing", not "here is every card we have".

Currentlive simulator
Current Home tab

Home. Weather, restriction, SPC, roads, sign-in, four links, IRPG, Department SOPs. Reference sits below the fold on the screen everyone opens first.

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Proposeddrawn
5:20RVFD
RV
RVFDToday
Red flag warning · SPC elevated
Fire danger: very high
US-93 MM 94.7 · road work
Right now
Truck
check
Record
report
Scan
crew
1110 out of serviceOOS
Failed inspection · 3 days
My tasks
Monthly check, 1114
Restock 1117 medical bag
Next
Tue 19:00 · Monthly training, hall
Today
Incident
Reference
Radio

Today. Status strip, then the three actions a member actually opens the app to do. No reference cards in the scroll.

02

Two reference tabs become one index

FOG and Apparatus stay reachable in one tap from Reference, because they are the two big tiles. Hazmat, IRPG, SOPs and Manuals stop being cards hidden inside another library.

Currentlive simulator
Current FOG tab

FOG. IRPG and Hazmat are cards at the top of the FOG list, so both tools look like FOG features. Apparatus is a separate tab with the same status.

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Proposeddrawn
5:24RVFD
RV
RVFDReference
64 proceduresField Operations Guide
9 rigsApparatus & Pump Ops
Hazmat Lookup›
IRPG Field Reference›
Department SOPs›
Equipment Manuals›
Outside links
511 road map · DNRC fire map · restrictions · roster
Today
Incident
Reference
Radio

Reference. One index, one search field, one door per tool. The two most-used libraries keep the largest targets on the screen.

03

The rig card stops hiding its own actions

A truck check and the equipment manuals are not properties of a rig page. They move to the rig row, and to a Today action, instead of sitting under every pump-ops step.

Currentlive simulator, scrolled
Current expanded rig card scrolled to its action buttons

Expanded rig. Four folder tabs, Read Aloud, every step, and only then Truck Checks and Ask the Manuals. Reaching them means expanding the card and scrolling past the procedure.

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Proposeddrawn
5:31RVFD
RV
RVFDApparatus
1114Water Tender▾
Check Manuals Status last checked 12 d
1110Structure EngineOOS
Check Manuals Status failed insp.
1117Wildland Engine▾
Check Manuals Status last checked 4 d
Expanded rig keeps the folder tabs
Pump Ops · Portable Pump · Drafting · Filling
Today
Incident
Reference
Radio

Apparatus. Each rig row carries its own Check, Manuals and Status targets. The pump-ops tabs are still one tap deeper, unchanged.

04

Incident stops being four jobs in one scroll

The dispatch card, crew scan, the accountability board and the whole report queue share one screen today. Split into three panes, an officer reaches the board without scrolling past drafts.

Currentreconstructed from source
5:33RVFD
RV
RVFDIncident
MVA · US-93 MM 91.2
Dispatched 17:02 · 2 units
Scan crewPAR 5:07
12 on scene
Interior 3 · Working 4 · Staging 3
Pending uploads
1 voice memo queued
Ready to review
1 draft report
Drafts
2 drafts
Submitted reports
Sep 28 · MVA · J. Smith
Home
FOG
App.
Incident
Radio
Admin

Incident. One scroll holding dispatch, the board, and four report sections. The board competes with the report queue for the same column.

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Proposeddrawn
5:33RVFD
RV
RVFDIncident
DispatchBoardReports
MVA · US-93 MM 91.2
Dispatched 17:02 · 2 units on scene
Scan crewPAR 5:07
12 on scenePAR 4 min
Interior 3 · Working 4
Staging 3 · Rehab 1
Cleared 1
Reports: 1 ready, 1 draft, 1 queued1
Today
Incident
Reference
Radio

Incident. Three panes, one job each. Board holds roster and PAR; Reports holds uploads, syncs, ready, drafts, submitted. A member sees Dispatch only.

05

Settings stops being a sheet, and absorbs Admin

Today the gear opens a sheet, and the Admin tab opens a different settings area. One destination, reached the same way from every header.

Currentlive simulator, signed out
Current Settings sheet

Settings sheet. An X in the top left, no back chevron. For an officer it also chains to three more sheets: pipeline, manual ingestion, radio shutdown. Signed out, the Department rows are absent.

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Proposeddrawn, officer view
5:28RVFD
‹
Settings
Account
Shawn Fleming · officerSign out
Department
Members & invites›
Pipeline config›
Out-of-service voids›
Emergency radio shutdown›
Audio / voice
Readout voice · pre-recorded, AI-generated
Appearance
SystemLightDark
About
1.0.0 (7)

Settings. Pushed, chevron on the left, no tab bar. Department is admin-only and holds what the Admin tab held. Everything below it is what the sheet already had.

06

The radio shutdown moves to the radio

Cutting every app user off the hall node is an emergency action. It belongs on the radio screen, not two levels inside Settings.

Currentreconstructed from source
5:26RVFD
RV
RVFDRadio
Connected · hall repeater
Listening · auto-off in 51 min
Hold to talk
Release to stop. Leaving the tab releases the key and keeps listening.
Officer shutdown lives in Settings
⚙ › Emergency › Emergency radio shutdown
Home
FOG
App.
Incident
Radio
Admin

Radio. Monitor and push-to-talk. The officer's kill switch is not on this screen; it is three taps into Settings.

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Proposeddrawn, officer view
5:26RVFD
RV
RVFDRadio
Connected · hall repeater
Listening · auto-off in 51 min
Hold to talk
Release to stop. Leaving the tab releases the key and keeps listening.
Officer
Shut down app radio for everyone
Today
Incident
Reference
Radio

Radio. Same screen, plus the shutdown where the radio is, behind a confirm. Members never see that row. The safety state machine is untouched.

What this board does not show

These are drawings, not a build. Nothing in the app, the routes, the database or the roles has changed. The signed-out screenshots are the real app; the Incident and Radio "current" panels are reconstructed from source because the simulator has no approved login.
The honest cost. FOG and Apparatus each gain one tap from the tab bar; admin screens gain one. In exchange, a truck check loses two taps and a scroll, manuals lose a scroll, and an officer loses a scroll to reach the board and the report queue.

Option A this board, four tabs. Option B keep FOG as its own tab, five tabs, apply only the entry-point and way-out fixes. Pick one and I start with routing alone.