Every 79 seconds, a domestic fire ocurrs in the USA.

In Brazil, more than 1000 deaths by fire happen every year.

We're NasaOnFire and we created firewatch, an app that connects the society and firefighters in order to combat fires as fast as possible. The main solution used nowadays (911) is really inneficient and it does delay the action on the emergency areas. Our solution connects people and fireman directly, with a clear view on where the fireman should go.

The app was conceived with the idea of "the action must be really fast". With this in mind, we built our designs with intuitive interfaces for faster information providing.

The app has two main modes: user mode and fireman mode.

In the user mode, people can report fires in their location, or see if there's any danger in their neighborhood. Also, the user mode provides information on how to proceed in these situations.

In the fireman mode, they can receive reports in a rank, based on many variables, as proximity and number of reports per area. We also include information provided by FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System, by NASA) to detect larger fires in near real time, in order to have even more information on the affected areas. Data provided by local sensors, local temperature and electric installations (with FIRMS data) could be a great source for a machine learning system to even predict fires on certain locations.

The rank system and FIRMS information help us to prevent hoaxes and provide a trustable source of information.

The group used Adobe XD for prototyping and the implementation was made on React Native and Firebase plataforms. The progress was all documented in GitHub (https://github.com/salanho/nasaOnFire)