Train your whole team on your trucks, your hydrants, your water supply
Set up an organization and build your real equipment in the simulator, then get every firefighter or student the pump reps they need without burning apparatus time. Admins review every session to see exactly where each person stands.
New organizations start with a free trial. See how it works.
Built for the people who run the training
One set of organization tools, two jobs it does well: keeping a department sharp, and getting a class of students ready.
Fire departments
Keep every operator current on your own rigs and water system. The crew gets unlimited reps at the firehouse or at home, you do not burn apparatus time or fuel, and you can see who has actually been practicing before the next call tests them.
Academies and training schools
Put a whole class hands-on with realistic equipment without waiting for a truck and a yard. Students drill the same gear they will be tested on, and instructors review each student’s sessions to grade, spot the weak points, and coach.
Train on the exact gear you run
An organization owns its own equipment library. An admin builds it once, and every member trains on it. Generic simulators teach the idea of pumping. This one lets your people rehearse it on the trucks and water supply they will actually be standing in front of.
Your apparatus
Build the trucks you actually run. Set the pump, the operator panel side, every discharge and intake, tank size, and the default lines on each outlet, so the panel your people train on matches the one in the bay.
Your hydrants
Add the hydrants in your district with their real static and residual numbers. Members practice building a supply from the same water system they will be pumping on a call.
Your static sources
Define the ponds, tanks, and drafting sites your crews draft from, with the lift and supply characteristics that make drafting from them realistic.
Your nurse units
Set up the tenders and nurse units that feed your operation, so members can rehearse a sustained supply from a shuttle the way your department actually moves water.
Your line configurations
Save the preconnects and hose layouts your department carries: diameter, length, and nozzle. Members pull the same lines off the bed that they would on the rig.
Your foam equipment
Add the in-line eductors and foam concentrates your department carries. Members run full foam evolutions, from setting the metering dial to flushing the eductor, without burning a drop of real concentrate.
See every rep, assess and assist
Reps only build skill if someone is checking the work. Admins get a window into every member’s training, down to the individual action on the panel.
Every session, every member
Admins see all of the org’s training sessions in one place and can filter down to a single firefighter or student to see exactly what they have been working on.
Event-level review
Open any session for a timestamped, event-by-event timeline with the KPIs and pressure charts from that run. See where pressure changed, what the operator did, and how long each action took.
Roster dashboard
A department dashboard rolls up total sessions, completion rate, and training time across your roster, with a leaderboard so you can see who is putting in the reps.
Coach live, while the pump is running
Session review tells you what happened. Live sessions let you be there while it happens. One member runs the pump and shares a join code, and the instructor and the rest of the class watch the same panel in real time from their own screens. The drill that used to mean crowding a whole class around one truck now works from the classroom, the station, or home.
Watch the run as it happens
Every gauge, valve, and scene on the trainee’s panel, live on each viewer’s own screen. Viewers join with an 8-character code in seconds, from any device with a browser. No projector, no crowding around one laptop.
Throw faults mid-evolution
The host can hand fault control to the instructor, or to any viewer. Fail the hydrant, burst a line, or kill the prime while the trainee works the problem. Every fault is attributed by name in the session log, so the debrief shows exactly what was thrown and when.
Talk it through in chat
A built-in session chat keeps coaching in the moment, right next to the panel. The host can mute individual viewers or silence chat entirely during graded runs. The whole run still lands in session review for the debrief afterward.
Live sessions are included for organization members, and they pair with session review: coach in the moment, then replay the recording step by step in the debrief.
Turn every rep into a training record
The reps your people put in are also documentation. Completed sessions roll up into NFPA 1002 driver/operator training hours you can hand to your ISO reviewer, so the pump time your crew logs in the simulator counts toward the records your department has to keep anyway.
Hours logged automatically
Every completed session becomes a training record. Hours come from real active time on the panel with idle time stripped out, so there is no logbook to keep and no minutes to tally by hand.
Categorized for ISO and NFPA 1002
Each record is tagged to its NFPA 1002 §5.2 objective and the ISO PPC Driver/Operator category, and every member’s hours are tracked against the 12 hour per year continuing-education benchmark.
Export to the systems you use
Download CSV formatted for Vector / TargetSolutions, ESO, and Firehouse, or a print and save-as-PDF report you can retain for ISO/FSRS. Pick any date range and attest it with your training officer’s name.
- Per-member hours tracked against the 12 hour/year NFPA 1002 benchmark
- Detailed activity log: date, member, apparatus, NFPA reference, and outcome
- Custom date ranges for annual or quarterly ISO reporting
- Pass/fail grading you can include or leave off
- A printable report attested and signed by your training officer
- CSV layouts for Vector/TargetSolutions, ESO, and Firehouse
Reporting is an organization admin feature on an active plan. Vendor CSV layouts are provided as a convenience, verify the columns against your account. Fire Pump Simulator is an independent product and is not endorsed by or affiliated with NFPA, ISO, or Verisk.
Make the math match your area
Friction loss is where pump operators live and die, and not every department uses the same coefficients. An admin can set your organization’s hose friction-loss coefficients for each hose size, and every member’s simulation uses your numbers.
The values lock in the moment a sim starts, so a later change never alters a run already underway. Pump discharge pressure works out the way it does on your hose, so the reps your people put in carry straight over to the panel.
- Set coefficients per hose size for your organization
- Every member’s sim uses your numbers, not generic defaults
- Values are locked in when a sim starts
- Consistent pump discharge pressure math across the whole roster
Bring your people on, manage who does what
Invite your roster by email and decide who builds the equipment and who trains on it. As people come and go, you stay in control of the organization.
Email invites
Invite firefighters or students by email. Each person gets a link to join your organization and start training.
Admin and member roles
Admins build equipment, set coefficients, and review sessions. Members train on what you have built. Promote or change roles as your team needs.
Enable or disable members
Turn access on for new recruits and a new class, and off for people who move on, so your roster always reflects who is actually training.
How it works
From a new organization to a reviewed roster.
Create your organization
Start an organization, name your department or academy, and kick off your free trial. You become the owner and first admin.
Build your equipment and invite your people
Add your apparatus, hydrants, static sources, nurse units, and line configurations, set your friction-loss coefficients, then invite firefighters or students by email.
Assign reps and review sessions
Your people train on your equipment as often as they want. You review their sessions event by event, watch the roster dashboard, and coach where it counts.
Scales from a single station to a full academy
Whether you are bringing on one crew or a whole class, there is a plan sized for your roster. Start your organization free, build your equipment, and bring your people on before you commit. Not sure where you land? Talk to us and we will help you size it.
Frequently asked questions
Can I add my department’s actual trucks, hydrants, and water sources?
Yes. That is the point of an organization. An admin builds your apparatus (pump, panel layout, discharges, intakes, tank, and default lines), your hydrants with their real static and residual numbers, your static drafting sources, your nurse units, your line configurations, and your foam eductors and concentrates. Everyone in the organization then trains on that equipment instead of generic defaults, so the reps line up with the gear they run in the field.
Can I see how my firefighters or students are doing?
Yes. Admins can review every member’s training sessions, filter by individual member, and open any session for a full event-by-event timeline with KPIs and pressure charts. A roster dashboard rolls up total sessions, completion rate, and training time, with a leaderboard across your people. It is built to help you assess and assist after the fact, so you can coach on what actually happened on the panel.
Can an instructor watch a trainee run the pump live?
Yes. A member starts a session and shares an 8-character join code or link, and anyone signed in can watch the run live: every gauge, valve, and scene on the trainee’s panel, in real time, on the viewer’s own device. A built-in session chat keeps coaching in the moment, and the host can grant fault control to the instructor or any viewer, so faults like a hydrant failure or a burst line land on the live rig mid-evolution. Every fault is attributed by name in the session log. Live sessions are included for organization members.
Can I match the friction-loss numbers we use locally?
Yes. An admin can set your organization’s hose friction-loss coefficients for each hose size, and every simulation your members run uses those values instead of the system defaults. The coefficients are locked in at the moment a sim starts, so a later edit never changes a run already in progress. This keeps the pump discharge pressure math consistent with the numbers your department trains and tests on.
How do I add my people?
Admins invite members by email from the members page. Each person gets an invite link to join your organization. You can assign admin or member roles, and enable or disable members as your roster changes. Admins manage the equipment and review sessions; members train on the equipment you have built.
Is this for fire departments or for training schools?
Both. A career or volunteer department uses it to get the whole crew reps on its own rigs and water supply without burning apparatus time. A fire academy or training school uses it to put students hands-on with realistic equipment, then review each student’s sessions to grade and coach. The same organization tools serve either one.
Does it run in the browser, or is there something to install?
It runs in any modern browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox) on a laptop, desktop, or tablet. There is nothing to install and no app to download. A larger screen is the best experience for operating the pump panel.
How do plans work for an organization?
Plans scale with the size of your roster, and a new organization starts with a free trial so you can build your equipment and bring your people on before you commit. Create your organization to see the plan that fits your team, or get in touch and we will help you size it.
Can I use this to document training hours for ISO or NFPA?
Yes. Every completed session becomes a training record with the member, the hours (real active time on the panel, with idle time removed), the NFPA 1002 §5.2 objective that was drilled, and the ISO PPC Driver/Operator category. An admin can export those records as CSV or a printable report and retain them for an ISO/FSRS review. Fire Pump Simulator is an independent product and does not issue certifications, but it produces the documentation your department keeps to show driver/operator training was done.
What formats can I export training records in?
Six CSV layouts and a printable report. The CSVs include a generic ISO layout, a per-member summary, a detailed activity log, and best-effort import layouts for Vector/TargetSolutions, ESO, and Firehouse (verify the columns against your account). The printable version prints or saves as a PDF with a training-officer signature line. You can set any date range for annual or quarterly reporting and choose whether to include pass/fail grading.
Is this affiliated with NFPA or IFSTA?
No. Fire Pump Simulator is an independent training product. It references standards like NFPA 1002, 1010, 1962, and 291 because those are what the pump operator role is built on, but the product is not endorsed by, certified by, or affiliated with NFPA or IFSTA.
Get your team training on your equipment
Create your organization, build your rigs and water supply, and bring your people on. You will be reviewing their first sessions before the week is out.