Planning for the technical retrofit of units of Emercom of Russia is a strategic management function, which includes a range of activities to analyze the situation with the technical support of the territorial governments and departments, as well as factors affecting the condition of hardware designed for the tasks. Park fire and rescue equipment of Fire Service of Emercom of Russia is 23950 cars on January 1, 2016. The percentage of write-off of fire trucks, taking into account the average service life of 10 years, is 68.3 % (51.9 % - more than 15 years of operation and 39.7 % - more than 20 years of operation). Given that for liquidation of fires and emergencies are mainly involved in basic fire fighting vehicles - it’s account for 90 % of the total fleet of fire trucks, it will analyze the technical condition of the main fire vehicles. The percentage of cancellation of the park based on the average period of service of fixed fire-fighting vehicles is 66.1 %. This percentage would be much higher if the reserve stock of fixed fire-fighting vehicles and 50 % would not be reduced. This percentage is increasing every year. Number of departures of fire units on fires, fire, traffic accidents and other destructive events increases every year. In an average year the guards on duty leave about 1.67 million times. The result is that one major car travels in a year about 134 times. In recent years the issue of the retrofit of park vehicles is acute because of the lack of funding of Emercom of Russia. Analysis of the operational units of Emercom of Russia, located on a particular area has shown that large financial and time costs required to implement the accepted concept. The amount of data costs does not allow retrofitting (at one time) in all regions, so it is possible to implement a phased (target) retrofit of units of Emercom of Russia. For prioritization to refurbish and develop a phased retrofit concept must be based on actual operational situation in the regions. Therefore, there is a need for scientific and practical substantiation of approaches to technical re-equipment of units of Emercom of Russia. For formalized description of the operational situation in the regions of Russia with a view to their quantification and ranking by preference in terms of retrofit, it is proposed to use two quantitative indices - the criterion of operational readiness and test technical readiness units of Emercom of Russia before and after the retrofit. The criterion of operational readiness allows a quantitative measurement of the degree of employment units in the decision-making model of retrofitting of units Emercom of Russia, while the criterion of technical readiness of units of Emercom of Russia to evaluate the potential for technology to be in good condition, needed to solve the problem as intended. These criteria, although they do not define all the parameters necessary to take into account the im-plementation of retrofitting, but are crucial. These criteria are complex indicators and provide a framework of information-analytical models during the ranking of the territorial units of fire protection in the order of preference for the retrofit of the basic fire appliances.