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New Video about using the Incident Symbology Guideline

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I just created a new video describing how to use the guidelines created by the NAPSG Incident Symbology Workgroup.  Take a look and leave a comment below.

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Chris

ESRI Public Safety “Road Ahead”

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ESRI in the Public Safety blog outline the road ahead in a recent blog post.  Click here to check it out

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/02/14/arcgis-for-local-government-the-road-ahead-in-2013/

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Chris | Leave a reply

Watch “Google Maps- Part I of “The Googling”" on YouTube

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Chris | Leave a reply

Beware of the Google!

Posted in Cool Things.

Locate Your Fire Stations

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Chris | 2 Replies

Here’s an example of a Fire Station Map  for the entire country using the entire US.  Sources are derived from a variety of sources.

Posted in Cool Things.

MAPSAR Training in Bellevue (WA) April 6-7

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Chris | Leave a reply

NAPSG and local search and rescue agencies are hosting a MAPSAR training program in Bellevue the 6th and 7th of  April at the Bellevue Public Safety Training Center.  For more information click the link below

NAPSG/MAPSAR Wildland Search and Rescue

 

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Chris Rogers

Chris Rogers

I’m a fire lieutenant with with 20 years of experience and an unusual fascination with maps. I started my fire service experience as a resident firefighter while going to college for cartography. I realized my professional passion was being a firefighter, however I never lost my excitement for cartography.

Steve Pollackov

Steve Pollackov

For the past 9 years, I have served as the Commanding Officer of the Fire Department City of New York’s (FDNY) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Unit. Under my leadership, I have increased the integration of Geospatial Technology within the FDNY

David Blankinship

David Blankinship

A GIS leader and technical specialist, David has a 15 year background in leading initiatives to make GIS an emergency operations tool. He is a national leader specializing in communicating highly complex data and analysis into easy to understand field level implementation of information. He has participated in numerous national award-winning projects, major incidents all over the country including Katrina and the 2007 and 2008 California fire sieges.

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