Fire departments & protection districts
A firehouse website your whole crew can run.
Recruitment that fills the roster, a burn-ban banner you post in seconds, safety programs, and board minutes that meet the Open Meetings Act — 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. Live in days — no five-year contract, no RFP.
Free plan, no credit card. Or go Civic for the department features — you approve it before 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.
Facebook 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 & the people
Show the engines, the crew, the history, and the station. It's how residents connect their tax dollars to the neighbors who answer the call.
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 — 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.
Governments serving 50,000 or more residents.
Governments under 50,000 — and special districts: fire protection districts, park districts, library boards.
We engineer every CE Sites page to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard and ship an accessibility-statement page with it. We engineer to the standard; your counsel advises on your entity's specific obligations. If we ever ship something that misses the standard, we fix it — that's on us.
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 person 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.
| Vendor | Typical cost | Contract | Accessibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| CivicPlus | $8,000–$25,000 / yr | Multi-year, ~5–7% annual escalator | ~$4,200 / yr add-on (AudioEye) |
| revize | ~$5,900 / yr (+ setup) | 5-year term; cancel early = full balance due | Overlay widget |
| Fire-website template shops | ~$500 / yr | Varies | None — no compliance story |
| CE Sites — Civic | $149 / mo (~$1,490–1,788 / yr) | Month-to-month · cancel anytime · export anytime | Built to WCAG 2.1 AA — included |
Figures from vendors' published pricing and municipal procurement records, 2024–2026. Re-verify at contract time; DIY pricing churns. We're not the $500/yr tier — we're the one with AI, engineering, and compliance in the base price.
Everything above, plus hosting, security, updates, and get-found-by-Google-and-AI optimization. About $1,500–$1,800 a year — under every state's competitive-bid threshold, so no RFP: your board approves it on the consent agenda.
★ Founders' rate: first 250 departments get $250 off year one of Civic + free migration — code AMERICA250, ends Sept 7, 2026See it live
Prairie Creek Fire Protection District
A complete fire-district site built on CE Sites — alert banner, recruitment, programs, and an accessibility-first build. Open it, run it through a screen reader, check the contrast. 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.
Chiefs talk. 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.
Straight answers
The questions boards actually ask.
Do we have to put it out for bid?
Almost never. At roughly $1,500–$1,800 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 really accessible?
Yes — WCAG 2.1 AA built into the HTML: semantic markup, keyboard navigation, real contrast. Not an overlay widget, which the courts don't accept.
We already have a site. Can you move it?
Yes. Public-sector onboarding includes moving your existing content for you, 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 in?
No. Month-to-month, cancel anytime, and export everything whenever you like. No five-year term, no cancel-early penalty.
Who's behind it?
Champlin Enterprises, an AI-native software company in Gurnee, Illinois. You deal with the engineers who built the platform.
Give your department a website that holds up.
Accessible by construction. Live in days. No contract, no RFP. Start free — you approve it before you pay a dollar.