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Mobile Risk Assessment Featured in PocketPC MagazineThursday, July 10, 2008 | 6:09pmThe latest issue of Smart Phone & Pocket PC magazine features an article highlighting the use of Alsea Geospatial’s Mobile Risk Assessment: Fire Risk software by the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire Department. In the article Chief Taylor Robertson details how the data collected using Fire Risk has allowed their department to better respond to wildfire threats. He explains, "For those firefighters who are protecting our structures, most of whom have come from somewhere else, I can hand them a package and say, Here's maps, access, everything—the information you need to make good choices and keep yourself safe." He also describes how the survey information has provided a valuable means of informing the public. "It's an educational tool for us," says Robertson. "For homes where we identify defensibility issues, we explain the potential problems to the homeowners and discuss possible ways to correct them."
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OSU Students establish winning tradition with help from AGIFriday, May 18, 2007 | 3:10pmOSU students Matthew Hayward and Foster Clark clinched first place in the Computer Science division of the 2007 OSU Engineering Expo for their contribution to the second year of the Code3Sim senior project. This marks the second consecutive first place finish for Code3Sim at the Expo. The project is a collaboration among OSU, Corvallis Fire Department, Coelo Company of Design, and Alsea Geospatial. AGI employees Christopher Dale and Michael Goin, who worked on the Code3Sim project last year as students, helped mentor this year's phase of the project.
The Code3Sim software lets fire department planning staff play "what-if" by replaying actual incident history against alternate resource deployment and response rules. The features of the simulator include a "Chief-Proof" programming interface for detailed rule definition. The software also includes a runtime display based on maps from AGI's IncidentView for Corvallis program.
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IncidentView at Work from Rick Hill, Corvallis Fire DepartmentFriday, October 20, 2006 | 1:58pmOn September 22, 2006, Corvallis Police, Firefighters and Medics responded to an injured woman in the woods off Circle Blvd. Corvallis Police had located the woman in a blackberry patch in thick woods and brush. The CPD officer that located the victim called 911 on his cell phone and dispatch was able to obtain GPS coordinates from his phone. Dispatch radioed the coordinates to the Fire Incident Commander (IC).
Using Alsea Geospatial Incident View map program, the IC entered the GPS coordinates using the Lat./Long search feature. IC was able to see where victim was located in the woods and how far the crews had to carry the injured person back out to the awaiting ambulance. Using the aerial photos in Incident View, IC was able to examine the terrain and find a clearing accessible by vehicles nearby. Using the measuring tool in Incident View, IC was able to measure the distance from the victims? location to the clearing. The clearing was about 100? vs. about 2600? through thick brush back to the ambulance.
IC relocated the ambulance to the edge of the clearing and with a little trail blazing the victim was carried out to an awaiting ambulance.
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FireSurvey in Action at the Foster Complex FireWednesday, September 20, 2006 | 11:04amOn July 31 and August 1, 2006 a Recon ?Pocket PC? with AGI?s ?Fire Survey? installed was used to triage structures (i.e. gather data on their location and defensibility) within the area burned by the Foster Complex fire along the Oregon side of the Snake River (near the town of Halfway). Using principally the Fire Triage and Quick Triage components of Fire Survey, Randy Johnson (fire chief for Chelan County, WA Fire District 1) and Karl Hartzell of AGI triaged over thirty dwellings (and associated outbuildings) and other structures within or near the burn perimeter.
Data gathered on structure location, flammable fuels either part of the structure or nearby (in the form of vegetation), and resources available for fire fighting, were used to the gauge each structure?s defensibility in the event that the fire would turn in the direction of the many buildings present near the west bank of the Snake River.
Upon completion of field data collection, the information gathered was taken to a GIS mapping team within the fire project office, where it used make maps noting structure location. In addition, printed copies of spreadsheets showing structure location and defensibility attributes were generated and distributed to firefighters who would later revisit these structures and their owners.
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Bend Police Dept and Fire Dept OnBoard with IncidentViewThursday, September 14, 2006 | 11:32amThe Bend Police and Bend Fire Depts have recently purchased several copies of our IncidentView Software.
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