🏷️ About: Firesource’s features: ◦ Live fire feed - both on map and in scrollable menu ◦ Local and national fire incidents - news updates and reports ◦ Fire perimeters - access all realtime fire perimeters at once with information about fire growth and progress, including acreage, containment, personnel, fire cause, and fire behavior ◦ Report a fire - instantly inform other users of a nearby fire by pressing the + button, taki.
Limited usefulness for large wildfires as all fires are only marked with a single point rather than showing their perimeter. If the text describing a fire is long, it is cut off and there is no way to read the full entry. I recommend avoiding Firesource in its current state.
We have a fire that’s moving fast. The info Firesource has is 2 days old. It is giving me information for wildfires in Utah, even though it has my locator in Ca. I’m not in Utah.
Firesource is worthless!
There are multiple fires here right now, but none of them are listed on Firesource. Disappointed.
Watch TV, it’s better than Firesource. Not user friendly and takes forever to boot up.
Things I want to know right off the bat: where are the fires, how big is the active/burned area, what direction is it moving, and what’s the air quality. While Firesource does have perimeter info, it’s too hard to find for each fire and should be displayed on the map by default. But I do really appreciate that Firesource also has air quality.
I always feel like I’m fighting with the bottom menu to stay minimized, it keeps popping up and takes 1/3 of the screen. Even the minimized version of the menu uses a lot of real estate. I doubt I would ever use the feed.
Firesource is promising because most of the information is there, it just needs to be displayed better!
App is getting better but I think it’s weakest feature is clearly outlining the most important info about each fire in a more useful/fast way to digest.
Example: When tap on a active fire nearby, you’re taken to the fire info page and then the data that is collected for that fire is just very crudely added in a hard to read type...
I would pick this data apart and make basic info more readily available such as “containment”, “air quality”, etc.
I mean, that is the main thing we are looking for when we tap on a fire to see. So having to weed through text to find the 1 important piece of info we need is kinda mundane.
My 2 cents.
Firesource is easy to use but just offers a small amount of information. There are better apps available.
Good for getting snapshots to track fires while traveling.
Would be nice to also see a list of % of containment.
Love the breadth of information and the ability to see pics of some of the fires. Great app to have in California!
Very useful app that can be used to help community evacuate.
I highly recommend it
Great work!
This is very useful and deserves a five star
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Yes. Firesource - Live Wildfires is quiet safe to use but use with caution. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 2,000 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.6/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Firesource Is 27.9/100.
Yes. Firesource - Live Wildfires is legit, but not 100% legit to us. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 2,000 Firesource - Live Wildfires User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for Firesource Is 27.9/100..
Firesource collected the following data from you:
Perimeter data is provided by the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) Group and hosted in the National Interagency Fire Center ArcGIS Online Organization (The NIFC Org).
To report a fire, press the yellow + button in the top right corner of the map, select the type of fire (vehicle fire, forest fire, terrain fire, structure fire), take a photo of the fire, and press submit.
When viewing user-reported fires in the feed, other users can ‘rate’ the fire report by confirming that it is active, contained, or a spam reporting.
Allowing app users to report a fire and immediately inform other users is an essential aspect of Firesource.
Firesource displays fire perimeters and descriptions of their progress in the ‘National Fires’ tab of the menu, with this information updated on a regular basis.
