> Boards for volunteer fire brigades: the drill year, equipment checks and the open day, with templates. Firefighters join free. Not an alerting system. Source: https://contals.com/en/for/fire-brigades/ Language: en # The work between the call-outs, in one place. Contals keeps drills, equipment checks and the open day on boards that the officers plan and every firefighter reads free on their phone. [Start free](https://app.contals.com/login?mode=signup) [See the fire brigade templates](https://contals.com/en/templates/#fire) Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card. Video: a card moves to the next list of a project board with drag and drop. ## Emergencies are well organized. The year around them often isn’t. The drill programme as a PDF, the checks in a binder, the open day in a crowded chat. Contals is made for fire brigades run by volunteers. Video: with “My cards” and “This week”, the board shows only what matters now. Video: the search finds the boards and cards with “plan” in every project. - Firefighters free - Templates for the drill year - Checks that come back - Data stored in the EU ## The open day on one board Every task a card – with an owner, a due date and a checklist. [Learn more – The open day on one board](https://contals.com/docs/en/boards/basics/) ![A Contals board for an open day: lists for ideas, planning, organisation and the work in progress, with cards that show labels, due dates, checklists, comments, votes and the people doing them; the work in progress has a limit of three cards.](https://contals.com/_astro/board-en-light.B76I2xN-_Z1x9lRa.jpg) ![A Contals board for an open day: lists for ideas, planning, organisation and the work in progress, with cards that show labels, due dates, checklists, comments, votes and the people doing them; the work in progress has a limit of three cards.](https://contals.com/_astro/board-en-light.B76I2xN-_Z1x9lRa.jpg) Video: a status update “At risk” is published for the open day, and the current status turns yellow. Status at a glance Video: in the workspace calendar, a due date moves to the next day with drag and drop, between the cards of the other projects. Every date, one calendar Video: the last two shifts of a checklist are ticked and its progress bar fills to 100 percent. Tick it off ## Readable on any phone The simple view: large cards, plain words, few buttons. [Learn more – Readable on any phone](https://contals.com/docs/en/settings/simple-view/) ![A volunteer’s phone in the simple view: large cards with an “Open” button each, plain words and few controls.](https://contals.com/_astro/simple-phone-en-light.FnyOwtSh_Z1znMW3.jpg) ![A volunteer’s phone in the simple view: large cards with an “Open” button each, plain words and few controls.](https://contals.com/_astro/simple-phone-en-light.FnyOwtSh_Z1znMW3.jpg) ## The drill year in the calendar Drills and checks from every board in one place. [Learn more – The drill year in the calendar](https://contals.com/docs/en/views/across-boards/) ![The workspace calendar for one month: the due dates of six project boards, each in its board’s colour, and the evening picked in a date poll.](https://contals.com/_astro/calendar-en-light.BDtxLxmL_Wxczw.jpg) ![The workspace calendar for one month: the due dates of six project boards, each in its board’s colour, and the evening picked in a date poll.](https://contals.com/_astro/calendar-en-light.BDtxLxmL_Wxczw.jpg) ## Up and running in three steps 1. ### Create the brigade’s workspace Sign up and name it after your brigade. Video: a new idea goes onto the content calendar in a few keystrokes. 2. ### Start from a template Drill year or open day: pick the date, done. Video: on a phone, from the start page into the volunteer day and the website relaunch and back – every project on its own board, in its own colour. 3. ### Invite officers and firefighters By link or QR code, free. Video: on a phone in the simple view, a volunteer opens a card of the volunteer day and taps “I’ll do it”. [Start free](https://app.contals.com/login?mode=signup) ## For officers and firefighters Yes, if you plan drills, checks, recruiting and events together. - Drill year - Vehicles and equipment - Recruiting - Open day Not an alerting or dispatch system, no duty roster, no incident log. ### Ready-made templates for this - ### [Fire brigade training year](https://contals.com/en/templates/fire-brigade-training-year/) 5 lists · 13 cards - ### [Fire station open day](https://contals.com/en/templates/fire-station-open-day/) 5 lists · 12 cards [All templates](https://contals.com/en/templates/) ## The catch? Contals is new. Only officers who organize boards pay – firefighters and helpers are free. For call-outs you keep your alerting system – Contals organizes the work in between. The full picture: costs, export, cancelling, where data lives What it costs Full members (people who create and organize boards) pay per month. Volunteers, guests and viewers are free on every plan, forever. A small team uses Contals for free: up to 5 full members and 10 active boards. On the free plan, notifications arrive in the app, by push and in the weekly summary e-mail. A free organization nobody uses for 90 days is paused until an owner signs in again. Prices are early-access prices and become final before the public launch. Your data stays yours Export a board or a workspace as JSON at any time, on every plan – cards, comments, Power-Up data and the activity of the last 13 months; the whole organization in one file on Team and Business. No support ticket, no fee. Leaving is easy Cancel any time; paid plans run to the end of the period, then the organization continues on the free plan – nothing is deleted. An organization is deleted only when an owner asks for it, 30 days later; deleting your account removes your personal data after a 30-day grace period. Billing records are kept only as long as tax law requires. Where your data lives Board data, the database and backups are stored in Cloudflare’s EU jurisdiction; a second, encrypted copy of the backups lies at DigitalOcean in Frankfurt (Germany). Cloudflare is a US company; we say “EU data residency”, not “sovereign”. Details on the security page. How we make money From full members on paid plans. No ads, no selling or sharing of data, no tracking cookies, no metered AI credits. Visits to the website and the sign-in pages are counted with privacy-friendly, cookieless statistics (Fathom); signed-in pages load none. [Pricing](https://contals.com/en/pricing/) [Our promises](https://contals.com/en/promise/) ## Seven pay. 45 firefighters don’t. A handful of officers organize; everyone else reads and helps for free. 7 full members pay45 firefighters free Video: a guest answers the date poll for the team evening on a phone, without an account. Vote without an account Example: 7 officers, 45 firefighters, 8 boards - Contals TeamEarly-access price 7 full members × CHF 4.50 / €4.50 / $4.50; firefighters free CHF 31.50 / €31.50 / $31.50 - Trello Standard Guests on 2+ boards count as members: 52 × $5 ≈ $260 - Asana Starter 7 officers need 10 seats (seats in steps) × $10.99; firefighters as guests with limited rights ≈ $110 List prices per user and month with annual billing, rounded, as published on the vendors’ pricing pages and checked on 13 October 2026. Rules for guests and seat steps differ in detail – please check the linked pages before you decide. Contals is shown with annual billing too; its prices are early-access prices and become final before the launch. ## Checks come back on their own What a week can look like – an invented example. 1. Mon 19:30 Thursday’s drill has a lead, the equipment list is ticked off. 2. Wed 06:45 The card for the pump check appears; a pump operator takes it. 3. Thu 20:00 Drill night: new members scan the QR code. 4. Sat 16:00 Open day over – every stand was staffed. ### Without one place - A drill programme as a PDF. - Checks in a binder. - Knowledge in one person’s head. ### With Contals - Every drill a card with a lead. - Checks come back with their checklist. - The planning stays with the brigade. Video: a comment on the card asks a colleague with an @mention. Ask on the card ## Questions and answers ### Can Contals alert our brigade? No. Contals is no alerting or dispatch system. Keep your alerting system for call-outs; Contals organizes drills, checks, recruiting and events. ### Do firefighters have to pay? No. Firefighters and helpers join as volunteers or viewers – free on every plan. Only officers who create and organize boards are full members. ### How do regular equipment checks work? A card repeats on a schedule with the Card repeater Power-Up – every month, for example – with a checklist and an owner. Done checks stay in the board’s history. ### Are there templates for fire brigades? Yes: Fire brigade training year and Fire station open day, in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, free on every plan. ### Do fire brigades get nonprofit pricing? Nonprofit pricing is for registered churches, charities and associations, and we review each request. A fire brigade organized as a registered association, or its support association, can ask for it on its organization’s billing page: the Team plan free for up to 15 full members and 50 % off paid plans beyond that. For brigades run by a municipality we decide per request. Members who only help or read are free anyway. ## Plan the next drill year on a board. [Start free](https://app.contals.com/login?mode=signup) Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.