{"id":15238,"date":"2013-09-23T22:56:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T22:56:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-23T23:15:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T23:15:20","slug":"how-firefighters-used-big-data-to-fight-the-rim-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/23\/how-firefighters-used-big-data-to-fight-the-rim-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"How Firefighters Used Big Data to Fight the Rim Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tmappsevents.esri.com\/website\/rim-fire-perspectives-map\/?embed=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"No\" width=\"430px\" height=\"400px\" align=right><\/iframe><i>Firefighters used precision data to protect water sources<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>The Rim Fire in and around Yosemite is almost fully contained. (<a href=\"http:\/\/goldrushcam.com\/sierrasuntimes\/index.php\/news\/mariposa-daily-news-2013\/158-september\/10146-rim-fire-near-yosemite-national-park-update-for-monday-morning-september-23-2013\">84% to be exact<\/a>], you can <a href=\"http:\/\/goldrushcam.com\/sierrasuntimes\/\">get daily Rim Fire updates at thye Sierra Sun Times<\/a>.) It has cost nearly $125 million since it began on August 17, burning 3 commercial buildings and 11 residences plus a lot of other outbuildings. But some of the biggest risks it presented was to our water supply. As it was building near several reservoirs, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hetch_Hetchy\">grand Hetch Hetchy reservoir<\/a> that provides water to much of the Bay Area, firefighters couldn&#8217;t necessarily just dump fire retardant wherever worked best for fire containment.<\/p>\n<p>To put it simply, they had to be far more precise, both in dumping their payloads and targeting relief assistance. Over at the Verge, they take a look at company called ESRI who helped process mapping and other data to help fight the fires and help those in need. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/9\/21\/4753164\/fighting-fire-with-maps-how-gis-tech-helped-beat-back-the-rim-fire\">whole story over there<\/a> to get an idea of how firefighters are using technology these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tmappsevents.esri.com\/website\/rim-fire-perspectives-map\/?embed=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"No\" width=\"430px\" height=\"400px\" align=right><\/iframe><i>Firefighters used precision data to protect water sources<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>The Rim Fire in and around Yosemite is almost fully contained. (<a href=\"http:\/\/goldrushcam.com\/sierrasuntimes\/index.php\/news\/mariposa-daily-news-2013\/158-september\/10146-rim-fire-near-yosemite-national-park-update-for-monday-morning-september-23-2013\">84% to be exact<\/a>], you can <a href=\"http:\/\/goldrushcam.com\/sierrasuntimes\/\">get daily Rim Fire updates at thye Sierra Sun Times<\/a>.) It has cost nearly $125 million since it began on August 17, burning 3 commercial buildings and 11 residences plus a lot of other outbuildings. But some of the biggest risks it presented was to our water supply. As it was building near several reservoirs, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hetch_Hetchy\">grand Hetch Hetchy reservoir<\/a> that provides water to much of the Bay Area, firefighters couldn&#8217;t necessarily just dump fire retardant wherever worked best for fire containment.<\/p>\n<p>To put it simply, they had to be far more precise, both in dumping their payloads and targeting relief assistance. Over at the Verge, they take a look at company called ESRI who helped process mapping and other data to help fight the fires and help those in need. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/9\/21\/4753164\/fighting-fire-with-maps-how-gis-tech-helped-beat-back-the-rim-fire\">whole story over there<\/a> to get an idea of how firefighters are using technology these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[2467,11215,11177],"class_list":["post-15238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-2467","tag-11215","tag-11177"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3XM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}