Jason Moore tells of how two fire departments use geographical information systems (GIS) to improve response and reduce community risk. San Bernardino County, CA, Fire Protection District crews ...

A GIS-based community fire risk and hazard assessment starts with identifying, ranking and mapping identified hazards. You must first decide how you will identify the locations of certain hazards.

GIS: ultimate visualization I specifically refer to data as layers, because this is the true power of perhaps one of the most useful visualization tools that’s available to fire departments.

GIS specialists develop interactive 3D maps to display fire perimeters, evacuation zones and other critical data. The geospatial data serves as the foundation for effective communication and ...

HERE helps eliminate data prep headaches with high-quality foundational data ready to go and tailored for Esri users.

The Palisades Fire has consumed more than 23,700 acres, destroying more than 5,000 structures, and is 17 percent contained. The Eaton Fire, which ignited in the area around Altadena, north of ...

Adversity can inspire innovation. Laguna Beach, an idyllic seaside city in Southern California, continues to build on an extensive GIS application launched after a devastating fire in October 1993 ...

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The fire authority recently signed a contract with the Green Info Network to begin collecting this GIS data of fire prevention work in Marin, which can be exported to the state’s tracker.

Representatives for the Kansas Division of Emergency Management’s (KDEM) Geographic Information System (GIS) section will be presenting a tool developed to map emergency operations plans in San Diego ...

The Park Fire, while massive in size, is nowhere near the scale of California's largest fire, the August Complex Fire. The fire burned 1,032,648 acres from Aug. 16 through Nov. 11, 2020.

To put the Crabapple Fire burn scar in perspective, when overlaid over San Antonio, it’s the equivalent of a burned area from roughly St. Mary’s University, through downtown, then over to the ...