Fire departments & protection districts
A firehouse website your whole crew can run.
Emergency alerts, recruitment, safety programs, meeting minutes, and an apparatus gallery — engineered to the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard from the first line of code. We build it, you approve it live, then you pay.
- WCAG 2.1 AA by construction
- Live in days, not months
- No contract, cancel anytime
- Under the bid threshold — no RFP
Built for how you serve
Everything a department needs. Nothing a webmaster has to babysit.
A Facebook page can't hold your recruitment pipeline, your burn bans, or your public records. This can — and your chief can update it from a phone at the station.
Emergency alert banner
Post a burn ban, road closure, or hydrant-flushing notice site-wide in seconds. Take it down just as fast. No ticket, no vendor.
Recruitment that fills the roster
Volunteer and career pages that actually convert — what the job is, what you offer, and an application form that lands in your inbox.
Public-education programs
CPR classes, smoke-alarm and car-seat programs, station tours, open houses — listed, dated, and easy for residents to sign up for.
Agendas & minutes
Upload a PDF and it's listed, dated, and searchable — the transparency page districts need for Open Meetings Act posting. Your counsel confirms your obligations.
Non-emergency contact forms
FOIA requests, records requests, general questions — typed forms that route straight to the right inbox, with the "call 911 for emergencies" line built in.
Apparatus gallery
Show off your fleet — every engine, tower, and tender, with photos and specs residents can open and browse. See the live apparatus gallery (opens in a new tab) →
Included with Civic
See whether the community is actually finding you.
A department site shouldn't be a mystery. From your first day, Mainfolk shows you — in plain language, with nothing to set up — whether your recruitment and safety pages are getting through.
Is recruitment landing?
See how many people opened your volunteer and career pages this month, and how many reached out. Finally know whether the roster push is working — not just hope it is.
How residents found you
Google, Facebook, or the address on the engine — see what's actually bringing people to your site, so the department's time goes where it counts.
What the community needs
Your most-read pages and every non-emergency message your forms bring in, in one place — so you can see what residents keep coming to you for.
ADA Title II · The clock is running
Accessibility isn't a feature. For a fire district, it's the law.
The U.S. Department of Justice's ADA Title II rule requires state and local government websites — including fire protection districts, which are special districts — to meet WCAG 2.1 AA on federal deadlines. Overlay widgets don't get you there; courts and accessibility experts consider them insufficient. We build conformance into the markup itself — not a $4,200-a-year add-on.
Deadline
Governments serving 50,000 or more residents.
Deadline
Governments under 50,000 — and special districts: fire protection districts, park districts, library boards.
We engineer every Mainfolk page to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard, and a ready-to-publish accessibility-statement page is included. We engineer to the standard; your counsel advises on your entity's specific obligations. An accessibility gap in what we built is a bug — tell us and we'll fix it. See how we build ADA compliance in →
The easy part is us
We build it. You approve it. Then you pay.
You don't have hours to build a website, and you shouldn't have to. Send us a few photos and the basics about your department — we do the rest, and nothing goes live until you've seen it and said yes.
- We build the first draft. A complete site — pages, words, and images — from a short brief about your department.
- We move your old site for you. Public-sector onboarding includes migrating your existing content — free.
- You approve it live before you pay. See the real site on your own web address first. No surprises.
- No contract. Month-to-month, cancel anytime. No five-year term, no cancel-early penalty.
- You own it. Export your entire site and content whenever you want. No lock-in — the one honest exit in this market.
- A real engineer answers. You talk to the engineers who built the platform — not a call center.
The honest price
What departments actually pay — and what you'd pay us.
The government-website industry runs on five-year contracts, five-figure invoices, and accessibility sold as an add-on. We don't.
| Option | Typical cost / yr | Contract & lock-in | Accessibility | Procurement | Who answers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CivicPlus | $8,000–$25,000 | Multi-year + ~5–7% escalator | ~$4,200/yr overlay add-on | Formal RFP | Ticket queue |
| Revize | ~$5,900 (+ setup) | 5-year term; early exit = balance due | Overlay widget | Formal RFP | Ticket queue |
| Nephew's Wix / a Facebook page | $0–$200 | No continuity when they move on | None — no compliance story | N/A | Nobody, really |
| Mainfolk — Civic | ~$1,490–$1,788 | Month-to-month · export anytime | WCAG 2.1 AA by construction — included | Under bid threshold — no RFP | The engineer who built it |
Figures from vendors' published pricing and municipal procurement records, 2024–2026; re-verify at contract time. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Weighing a DIY route? See how we compare to Wix & Squarespace and to a WordPress build.
Everything above, plus hosting, security, updates, and get-found-by-Google-and-AI optimization. About $1,490–$1,788 a year — under every state's competitive-bid threshold, so no RFP: your board approves it on the consent agenda.
★ Civic includes free white-glove migration — we move your current site over for you. No RFP, no setup fee, no contract.See it live
See it live. Then judge it for yourself.
The Prairie Creek Fire Protection District demo is a complete, working fire-district site built on Mainfolk — alert banner, recruitment, programs, and a real apparatus gallery.
Open it. Run it through a screen reader. Check the contrast. Tab through it. That's the standard you'd ship.
Be the first in your county
Somebody in your area is about to have the best department website in the state.
The first district in your county to launch a fast, accessible, no-nonsense site becomes the one everyone else asks about at the next association meeting. Start free today, and be that department.
Between chiefs
Chiefs talk. The first accessible firehouse site in the county is the one every other department ends up copying.
Straight answers
The questions boards actually ask.
Do we need to put it out for bid?
Almost never. At roughly $1,490–$1,788 a year, Civic sits under every state's competitive-bid threshold and the federal micro-purchase limit. The usual path is a vendor proposal on your board's consent agenda — no formal RFP.
Is it actually accessible?
Yes. WCAG 2.1 AA is built into the HTML — semantic markup, keyboard navigation, real contrast — not bolted on with an overlay widget, which the courts don't accept.
We already have a site — can you move it?
Yes, we migrate it for you. Public-sector onboarding includes moving your existing content, and you approve the new site before you pay.
Who updates it after launch?
Anyone on your team. Posting a burn ban or uploading minutes is click-to-edit — no webmaster, no plugins, no HTML.
Are we locked into a contract?
No. Plans are month-to-month, cancel anytime, and you can export everything whenever you like. No five-year term, no cancel-early penalty.
Can we show our apparatus?
Yes. Every plan includes an apparatus gallery — each engine, tower, and tender with photos and specs. See the live gallery (opens in a new tab) →
What does it cost?
It's $149 a month, no setup fee — about $1,490–$1,788 a year, all-in with hosting, security, updates, and accessibility included. No five-figure invoice, no add-on for compliance.
Who's behind it?
Champlin Enterprises, an AI-native software company in Gurnee, Illinois. You deal directly with the engineers who built the platform — not a call center or a reseller.
Serve more than fire? We also build accessible sites for police departments and cities & villages.
A promise to the firehouse
Your crew answers the call. The website should answer the rest.
Alerts, recruitment, programs, minutes: kept current from any phone, by any member you authorize, on a site every resident can use. That is the standard we ship.
Give your department a website that holds up.
Start free — you approve it before you pay a dollar.
Accessible by construction · Live in days · No contract · You approve before you pay.