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As I understand this, the tracking fee is nonprofit and this is an application that collects a large number of volunteers, does it? From regular people following monitoring? Is it like a society?
So much so. You can look at Reddit and Wikipedia in a similar way. The difference, we live this.
About 20 of our pharmacies, have about 10 employees, 10 of them are radio operators themselves. But the information really comes from a firefighting radio.
So you realize that each truck does not have a stars of each truck after you have passed through several disasters. Communication systems are not very good. Firefighters are in danger, and in fact, the only way to hear what is happening, they cooperate with each other in real time.
And so hear:
“The fire that started here is burning on this series.”
“Tankers and already come already.”
“Catch line 87 highway.”
“Now the winds of the wind, spotting over the firing range.”
“This is so burned, houses are affected.”
You hear this live. There is no source of information for this. There is no place for this to happen without us. So we do what we do.
And do these volunteer society and employees fire? Or do some of them watch and share what they see?
Many of them are 30, 40 years of wild fire trips, dispatchers, correspondent types, sons and firefighters and firefighters talking about the background.
Thus, it sounds like a society where you have a society that you hit inside. I understand that you just have to convince them to see you more than just a technological guy.
That’s the beauty of this. We saw only human behavior and let them make them better. One of the fewest fires in 2020, when the sky in the sky in California turned into red, I watched them on Facebook and Twitter. Thus, they were a kind of regional. In the red confusion, in red, someone in Socal, Somon, SOOMA, Napa had someone in Napa.
They were doing this independently. They knew each other. They will talk a little and closed each other together. They were not controversial, just didn’t waste time to really cooperate.
The innovation was really [to] Convince all of them to work together – I didn’t [just] a techie. I lived in the danger of the same danger I live here. The key was to convince me here to help. I am part of this society. I try to use disaster in my lab in Silicon Valley.
And the data they share put it in a form of application to a form more or more accessible?
Yes, it’s a lot of questions. We did not change their behavior. They always listened to radios and speaks the language of the fire service and put it on Facebook and Twitter. What happens behind the scenes is really more information. Many signals include and many are very tactical and small, and we do not want to go on the hour duty. So they cooperate in the space. They all speak and listen.
It is very rare that a person is a person with an event. There are many people in the edit of real-time content:
“15 hectares go north-northwest. Was it 50 or 15?”
“Oh Shoot, let’s wait for the next transmission, about the fact that the airstrikes are located.”
“We will get a measurement in the fire.”
Then do we place the information in the hour duty. So they cooperate in real time. One has or control, and that person is essentially an eventful commander.
For people who do or work or work in that period, or for people working or working, some can volunteer, and some may be your employees?
Yes, a mixed bag. As many non-profit, there are paid staff and then there are volunteers.
We have many volunteers or have a second career, because they first contribute, and then it becomes a staff correspondent or regional captain and helps you to operate and cooperate certain parts of a state or region. And then many are in fact the full-time employee.
During the fires, I saw Chatgpt as programs No. 1. Traffic really surprised you, just like a fire.
Yes, it did. Here’s a sad part: We apply the number 1 in the App Store three times. This time it was the worst ever.
Yes, I want to say that there was one person in his emergency warning system, but Buggy was. He sent fake warnings. Thus, it was not only LA residents who used the hour duty? It was public officials and firefighters and helicopter pilots. Everyone seemed over her.
Yes, the government also uses hours of time. We have all large screens and all urgent operating centers.
We’ve done something that others cannot crack, and this is a useful format. Thus, the firefighters use all, “or” brush wave “or” brush rabbit “or” brush rabbit “or” brush rabbit “or” brush rabbit “.
The government is not all this information and it’s not just us, but not us, they did not tell us, but they are busy, trying to fight the fire.
We share a lot of granular, the information we share, and then we receive emails from tanker pilots and dozer operators and tell them more about them.
And it really realizes that it’s really a bigger company that is possible.
It’s odd. The success of the hour duty is an example of the failure of the government’s failure or tax-funded technology? Or don’t you just invest?
Yes, see, I want to say that these government organizations work so close with a lot and have a lot of failure. Everywhere. How did we vote individually. These are other software vendors who sell free space. It is a government with no other choices.
There are many points of failure. That day, that day, that day and it was very clear how much it was necessary.
It’s hard to accuse only one person or an org. I know that everyone will want to blame the boogeyman that we can make it.
And it is not only climate change, but the evil forest management. This is a lot of things that work against them all here. This makes the problem abnormally bad.