Emergency apps/sites when/if an evacuation is imminent due to fire danger

Emergency apps/sites when/if an evacuation is imminent due to fire danger
https://i.postimg.cc/3JJ3CPgC/fire-map-20200818-6am.jpg

With dozens of fires currently surrounding the Silicon Valley, concomitant
with smoke everywhere, embers floating in the pool, dry winds in every
direction, evacuation orders on & off (some rescinded, others enforced)...
https://i.postimg.cc/BZzSqhWq/fire-map-20200818-8am.jpg

.... maybe it's time to consider an emergency notification web site or app?
https://i.postimg.cc/y8d2kK0t/fire-map-20200818-7am.jpg

Some locals are suggesting this - do you have good experience with it?
o iOS: PulsePoint Respond, by PulsePoint Foundation
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pulsepoint-respond/id500772134
o Android: PulsePoint Respond, by PulsePoint Foundation
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.firedepartment

Do you have experience with this app that you can share?
o Also, what other "emergency" related apps do you recommend?

See also:
o CZU Lightning Complex fires
,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m3!15m2!1m1!1s%2Fg%2F11kn8bpg_6

o Santa Cruz County Twitter
https://twitter.com/sccounty?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7C twgr%5Eauthor

o CalFire Twitter
https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU

o CalFire Web
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/

o Zonehaven
https://community.zonehaven.com/

o SF Chronicle Fire Map
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/california-fire-map/

o Evacuation checklist
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5305121.pdf

To clarify, the question relates to apps and web sites for emergency
information on fires (and other emergencies but fires right now).

Given people on this newsgroup are geographically dispersed, the kinds of
web sites and apps suggested should likely be local _for you_ (which can be
anywhere in the world) or like some are below - world wide in scope.

The hope is that if each of us lists our best local emergency web sites and
apps (perhaps with a current screenshot so others can see what they report)
then all _others_ may benefit from your every action (which is always the
goal to leverage everything you do so that others always benefit from it).

To flesh out further _just_ the Silicon Valley area, here are some
screenshots taken just now so that you get an idea of what the apps and
sites I listed in the OP are reporting in real time (where some of the apps
and maps are world wide in scope)...

o PulsePoint Respond (app)
https://i.postimg.cc/BZzSqhWq/fire-map-20200818-8am.jpg

o Google Maps (site/app)
https://i.postimg.cc/y8d2kK0t/fire-map-20200818-7am.jpg

o Twitter - Santa Cruz County (site/app)
https://i.postimg.cc/BZd7gD9S/sccounty-twitter.jpg

o Twitter - CalFire (site/app)
https://i.postimg.cc/fRvHDr3y/twitter-calfire.jpg

o Calfire (site)
https://i.postimg.cc/g2yV3LdT/calfire-web.jpg

o SF Chronicle Fire Map (site)
https://i.postimg.cc/NMnmQ175/chronicle-fire01.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/g0Yvsc2k/chronicle-fire.jpg

o Zonehaven (site)
https://i.postimg.cc/3JJ3CPgC/fire-map-20200818-6am.jpg

Also, what would you _add_ based on your experience to this checklist?
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5305121.pdf

A few more fire weather-related world-wide real-time sites a

o Realtime lightning strikes map around the world
https://i.postimg.cc/k5M8HQL0/lightning-realtime-strikes.jpg
http://www.lightningmaps.org

o Realtime wind direction and wind force maps around the world
https://i.postimg.cc/C5xQLnZX/realtime-wind-direction.jpg
https://www.windy.com/37.340/-121.890?36.712,-121.569,7

o Realtime wildfire alert cameras around the world
https://i.postimg.cc/mkVhCJgh/wildfirecams.jpg
http://www.alertwildfire.org/southeastbay/index.html?camera=Axis-Mission2&v=518dd6b

On 08/19/2020 05:52 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:
A few more fire weather-related world-wide real-time sites a

o Realtime lightning strikes map around the world
https://i.postimg.cc/k5M8HQL0/lightning-realtime-strikes.jpg
http://www.lightningmaps.org

I saw one like that. I unplugged the ethernet cable and lightning
continued striking for as long as I cared to watch.

o Realtime wind direction and wind force maps around the world
https://i.postimg.cc/C5xQLnZX/realtime-wind-direction.jpg
https://www.windy.com/37.340/-121.890?36.712,-121.569,7

o Realtime wildfire alert cameras around the world
https://i.postimg.cc/mkVhCJgh/wildfirecams.jpg
http://www.alertwildfire.org/southeastbay/index.html?camera=Axis-Mission2&v=518dd6b

"Mandatory" evacuation here doesn't mean that you must leave. It means
that if you do leave, you aren't allowed back in. I left too early
during the Woolsey Fire, before there was an evacuation order, before
police and roadblocks were everywhere. I was locked out for a month.

During one of my daily attempts to get back in, there was an SUV parked
just the other side of the roadblock, the INside, and I asked the
officer about it.

It belonged to area residents, who would leave the vehicle parked there
while they went to town or wherever. When they returned, they were
allowed to climb back in their SUV and drive away into the evacuated
area! Since that SUV was never driven across a roadblock to exit the
area, it technically did not evacuate. The cops were only following the
letter of the law, and didn't interfere.

If you evacuate a fire area, and your family has more than one vehicle,
try to leave one on the inside.

On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:05:13 -0700, Corvid wrote:

If you evacuate a fire area, and your family has more than one vehicle,
try to leave one on the inside.

Thanks Corvid for that useful advice, which you learned through experience.

To keep this thread with useful national links to benefit everyone, add:
o Realtime satellite images of the fires from space
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And, for the locals, here are a couple useful emergency links:
o CZU (Santa Cruz Mountains) and SCU (Diablo Foothills) Lightning Complex Wildfires
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oes/Pages/czu-scu-lghtng-complx-fires.aspx
o CalFire Incidents
https://incidents.readyforwildfire.org/incidents/?lat=37.00000000000001&lng=-122.0000000&miles=50
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Arlen Holder wrote in
:

Emergency apps/sites when/if an evacuation is imminent due to fire
danger
https://i.postimg.cc/3JJ3CPgC/fire-map-20200818-6am.jpg

With dozens of fires currently surrounding the Silicon Valley,
concomitant with smoke everywhere, embers floating in the pool, dry
winds in every direction, evacuation orders on & off (some rescinded,
others enforced)...
https://i.postimg.cc/BZzSqhWq/fire-map-20200818-8am.jpg

... maybe it's time to consider an emergency notification web site or
app?
https://i.postimg.cc/y8d2kK0t/fire-map-20200818-7am.jpg

Some locals are suggesting this - do you have good experience with it?
o iOS: PulsePoint Respond, by PulsePoint Foundation
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pulsepoint-respond/id500772134
o Android: PulsePoint Respond, by PulsePoint Foundation
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.firedepartment

Do you have experience with this app that you can share?
o Also, what other "emergency" related apps do you recommend?

See also:
o CZU Lightning Complex fires

!4m3!15m2!1m1!1s%2Fg%2F11kn8bpg_6

o Santa Cruz County Twitter
https://twitter.com/sccounty?ref_src...camp%5Eserp%7C
twgr%5Eauthor

o CalFire Twitter
https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU

o CalFire Web
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/20...ightning-compl
ex/

o Zonehaven
https://community.zonehaven.com/

o SF Chronicle Fire Map
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/california-fire-map/

o Evacuation checklist
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5305121.pdf


Just saw a notification that Googlel is now showing wildfire boundaries
on Maps and a couple other apps. It' not an alert per se, but will at
least allow one to track the fire.

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 05:17:02 GMT, MajorLanGod wrote:

Just saw a notification that Googlel is now showing wildfire boundaries
on Maps and a couple other apps. It' not an alert per se, but will at
least allow one to track the fire.

Yes. Google is doing strange things if you're near one of the fires!
o Thanks for your purposefully helpful suggestion of Google Map changes!

The Google Map app, on mobile devices, seems to be picking up the _nearest_
fire complex to where you happen to be when you open up the app, I think.
o https://i.postimg.cc/ZYPNF8bd/alert02.jpg

I'm told they elevated the local fires to IMT1 that surround the Silicon
Valley but I don't have confirmation on that (there are about 18 IMT1 teams
in the USA, each of which is about 35 to 50 highly trained personnel).
o https://i.postimg.cc/NMnmQ175/chronicle-fire01.jpg

Each newspaper seems to have their own maps, e.g., the SF Chronicle:
o https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/california-fire-map/
Where this is a shot I took to show you what they're offering:
o https://i.postimg.cc/g0Yvsc2k/chronicle-fire.jpg

And this is the LA Times maps on the fires:
o https://www.latimes.com/wildfires-map/
Where this shows the Silicon Valley almost surrounded by fires:
o https://i.postimg.cc/mDCfGSN2/latimes-fire-map.jpg

Being in the thick of it all, this seems to be the best single site
for information because it shows the actual evacuation orders:
o https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f0121f7f2f0941afb3ed70529b2cee75

In that map, you can see evacuation orders _before_ they're given,
where you can zoom directly to your street to see what's going on.

If anyone knows of _better_ emergency evacuation web sites or mobile apps,
please let us know as the point is to leverage the information to all.
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It's amazing how much information you need when evacuation is upon you.

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:20:19 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

Being in the thick of it all, this seems to be the best single site
for information because it shows the actual evacuation orders:
o https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f0121f7f2f0941afb3ed70529b2cee75

I forgot to post a screenshot of the best site, so far, for useful info:
o https://i.postimg.cc/0jSpnzs4/alert04.jpg

That "best" site, so far, at least for _local_ evacuations, seems to be:
o https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f0121f7f2f0941afb3ed70529b2cee75

That gives you the exact evacuation zone for your home & the orders:
o https://i.postimg.cc/Z5W9kxW4/alert05.jpg

But the question is really about global sources of emergency information.
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