Scenario: You are a battalion chief and you have received e-mail, requesting approval of Working Out of Class (WOC) hours.

• Pull up the Crystal Report to compare the hours listed in your e-mail message to what appeared in TeleStaff, ensuring that the requested hours WOC are legitimate.
  • Go to Quicklinks | Crystal Reports | WOC Audit | Activity Audit Report.
  • Input the proper date range.
  • Note the following sample report:
    
• Log into FireApp and click the WOC button, found toward the bottom of the left-hand navigation.
• Click the Battalion Chief Approvals button.
  
• Review the report details.
• Click the Approve or Deny button for each entry. Note: If you choose Approve, the report will queue to go to the employee. If you choose Deny, e-mail will queue to go to the employee who submitted the hours to note that the hours have been denied. Further, please input a reason in the Supervisor Notes box if you deny hours, to explain why you are denying the hours.
• Click the Email Report button. If you do not click that button, the process is not complete and no e-mail will send.
• Click any other FireApp menu item (including Log Off) in order to leave the screen.

Please email the WOC administrator at FRSWOCAdministration@montgomerycountymd.gov, if you have any questions.

Scenario: You are MFF or LT who has been working out of class (for at least 280 hours in the last six months, plus 10 days) and would like to submit a report for approval.

• Log into FireApp and click the WOC button, located near the bottom of the left-side navigation.
• Click the Create Report button after you have created your WOC entries. (If you have not yet logged those entries, please click here for directions.)
  
• Check the boxes of the items you wish to include in your submission for approval.
  Notes:
  • Anything grayed out has already been submitted. If an item was denied in error, you will need to resubmit that entry.
  • All selectable items (i.e., non-gray) will appear at the top of the list.
• Select the appropriate battalion chief from the drop-down list and click the Send to BC button.
  Note: You will not be able to send the report until you select a BC. When the items you have selected turn gray, you will know that the report has been sent. From there, you will also get an e-mail confirmation message.
• Log off of FireApp when you are finished.

Scenario: You are a FF3 who has been working out of class and would like to submit a report for approval at the end of the pay period. (Note: To cut down on the possibility for error, it is preferable for you to submit one report per pay period.)

• Log into FireApp and click the WOC button, located near the bottom of the left-side navigation.
• Click the Create Report button after you have created your WOC entries. (If you have not yet logged those entries, please click here for directions.)
  
• Check the boxes of the items you wish to include in your submission for approval.
  Notes:
  • Anything grayed out has already been submitted. If an item was denied in error, you will need to resubmit that entry.
  • All selectable items (i.e., non-gray) will appear at the top of the list.
• Select the appropriate battalion chief from the drop-down list and click the Send to BC button.
  Note: You will not be able to send the report until you select a BC. When the items you have selected turn gray, you will know that the report has been sent. From there, you will also get an e-mail confirmation message.
• Log off of FireApp when you are finished.