Salmon Creek VFD Fire Atlas
This Fire Atlas is built for the local VFD to coordinate response and cooperation with partner agencies, plan and prioritize resilience projects, and gather community data. An emphasis here is on capturing geospatial data with zero friction, mostly using geo-tagged photos people already take then email to a special address.
As usual, we start with a 3D view to put things in context. We’re looking over Clark’s Butte with Salmon Creek Community School and the three-way junction more-or-less at the center. The Samuels’ Rance Loop extend up to the left, with Thomas Road heading out toward 101 to the right:
One of the primary uses for the VFD is around tracking water supplies. This view shows mapped water tanks and available standard connectors for the trucks. Water Sources
Consistent “street addresses” is a common difficulty in some rural areas, certainly this one. Here we’re adding a mileage on Samuel’s Ranch Loop counter-clockwise from the School as a coloring of the main road and individual markers: