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This article from Enterprise Security discusses the demand for “fast, accurate communications technology is higher than ever”, how mobile technology can improve situational awareness, and help support a wider range of crises, and that some firefighters are turning to ATAK to fill that need.
Here’s How Fire Departments Can Improve Efficiency Using Mobile… More
News Story covering Grizzly Creek Firefirghter in Colorado leveraging ATAK.
TAK, Aircraft on Grizzly Creek Wildfire More
This video via LinkedIn from Andreas “AJ” Johansson shows ATAK being used in California Forest Firefighting, including a video showing coordination between airbore video and the fire in real time.
TAK Used in CA Firefighting w/ Aircraft Video More
AJ Johansson Posts a video of using Pix4D to get info on a Brush fire, and uses CivTAK to estimate the amount of burned land. The entire post is below:
AJ-Pix4D for Firefighting More
This video from NBC11News.com (Colorado’s KKCO TV) on TAK — The Team Awareness Kit – verses paper maps, starring Brad Schmidt. It also highlights the value of mesh radios and Senator Cory Gardner (R, Colorado).
KKCO – TAK for WildFires More
Small VTOL UAS integrated with TAK & with quick fireline mapping.
Overwatch Aero Seamless & TAK Integration More
This LinkedIn post from Andreas Johansson, complete with video, shows and explains DroneTAK’s value to the Corona Fire Department. He doesn’t say it here, but it is clear that he’s using WinTAK as well in his “command center”.
DroneTAK Video Demo MoreThis is a short post from LinkedIn from Andreas Johansson discussing their first use of TAK for rescues in Bernalillo county NY which seems to be liked ot the 911 system using RapidSOS. ATAK and PAR’s Team Connect being used with Enhanced Location Services from RapidSOS 911 caller data to plot an injured hikers location and collaborate with Aircrews for …
Corona CA Fire Dept Using TAK for Rescues More
“We have had a unique situation that we’re actually seeing more across the U.S., which is the desire to use mobile devices to enable better team communication in real time and ensure that applications that require robust processing have the ability to do that quickly and on the go,”
Corona Fire Department Enhances Situational Awareness with ATAK More
From Financial News (UK) comes an article about a California Fire Department using ATAK on Samsung phones for first responders: Corona Fire Department in California is transforming how it delivers intelligence to its first responders with Samsung mobile devices, the company said. Equipped with Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) and ImageTrend software, Samsung Galaxy Tab S4s and S10s help the …
California Fire Department Uses ATAK to Meet First Responder Challenges More