POIs

They're used to tell the game where particular incidents can happen. Basically, some calls will simply not spawn without a POI.

For instance, if you create a fast food restaurant POI - you will occasionally now get calls that generate at a fast food restaurant (can view them on the mission list - pay attention to the 'place' column) as long as you have the required stations. Without the POI, you won't see certain calls spawn.

That's my understanding at least. Hope it helps!

Quote from War_Melon

So I'm wondering what the POIs actually do. Are they points where certain incidents happen? Or just things? Idk help

Cheers

Yes they are without them some of the calls may not spawn.

Once on the game page, you can visit 'possible missions'which should be in the bottom right corner.

This lists all available calls that you could potentially have. It shows how many stations etc are required, along with if it requires a certain POI (place). If you click on 'details', it will actually tell you how many of each vehicle type you will have to dispatch.

Note that supposedly some POI's are built into the game by themselves, but you cannot see these until you reach the rank of captain (which I am yet to do). I believe these are all done for the smaller fires though!

Once you create them manually, you'll start to see particular calls come in (providing you have the required resources).