 When a fire alarm goes off, decisions about who to send are made in split seconds with computers. It actually pinpoints the location of these apparatus in determining what we need for the type of call. It'll actually locate it and send the closest units. Deputy Fire Chief James McClellan says they also have programs that then help them provide coverage in areas where crews are responding to something. We use a program to see where our service area gaps are, and when we identify them, we move resources. That's how a unit from Suitland helped to provide backup in Laurel earlier this week