FireFighting Archives - CivTAK / ATAK

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science ad Technology (PCAST) has released a report titled “Modernizing Wildland Firefighting to Protect Our Firefighters” led by, led by Nobel Lauret and Cal Tech professor Frances Arnold, with former NASA astronaut Kathi Sullivan, PhD and John Dabiri, also a Cal Tech Professor. The report has five recommendations, the first of which is to …

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News

Here’s How Fire Departments Can Improve Efficiency Using Mobile…

August 1, 2021October 8, 2021 - Leave a Comment

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.

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TAK, Aircraft on Grizzly Creek Wildfire

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 - Leave a Comment

News Story covering Grizzly Creek Firefirghter in Colorado leveraging ATAK.

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News

TAK Used in CA Firefighting w/ Aircraft Video

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 - Leave a Comment

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.

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States / Video

AJ-Pix4D for Firefighting

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 - Leave a Comment

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:

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Licensees / States / Video

KKCO – TAK for WildFires

May 29, 2020June 26, 2020 - Leave a Comment

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).

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Uncategorized

Overwatch Aero Seamless & TAK Integration

April 11, 2020April 11, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Small VTOL UAS integrated with TAK & with quick fireline mapping.

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Civil Government

DroneTAK Video Demo

April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 - Leave a Comment

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”.

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Civil Government / Uncategorized

Corona CA Fire Dept Using TAK for Rescues

April 3, 2020April 7, 2020 - Leave a Comment

This 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 …

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States

Corona Fire Department Enhances Situational Awareness with ATAK

November 22, 2019April 7, 2020 - Leave a Comment

“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,”

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Tag: FireFighting

Presidential Report on Modernizing Wildland Firefighting

Here’s How Fire Departments Can Improve Efficiency Using Mobile…

TAK, Aircraft on Grizzly Creek Wildfire

TAK Used in CA Firefighting w/ Aircraft Video

AJ-Pix4D for Firefighting

KKCO – TAK for WildFires

Overwatch Aero Seamless & TAK Integration

DroneTAK Video Demo

Corona CA Fire Dept Using TAK for Rescues

Corona Fire Department Enhances Situational Awareness with ATAK