Est. 2019
|Guidebooks
Traditional fire service map books in a modern design and form.
Our team develop custom fire service map books to support off-line mapping, firefighter district education, and redundant water supply resources. Designed by firefighters with a front-seat 'layout and stretch' mindset, Guidebooks provide firefighters with urban and rural water supply solutions that are available in a paper and digital format.
Rural Water Solutions
Drafting locations, long driveways, split lays, and relays.
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DRAFTING LOCATIONS
Drafting locations will be pre-determined utilizing a grid and number system, and displayed on each page to ensure units understand their locations efficiently. Each drafting location will be marked at a water supply that exists year-round, and is accessible by about 20' of an apparatus path or road to accommodate 2 sleeves of hard suction.
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DRIVEWAY LENGTHS
Driveways for houses that are set back off the accessing road will be identified as a line, extending from the main road. These driveways will also be identified as to whether they are paved or unpaved (gravel and dirt), designated as dashed and solid lines.
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PRE-DETERMINED LAYS
If a road or development has relatively cut-and-dry water supply solutions, they will be represented in intervals of about 600 feet, supporting the typical 1200' engine bed. These lays, while typically the most advantageous lays, obviously do not need to be followed.
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BRIDGE WEIGHTS
Bridges that are identified by weight or height restriction are designated. Private bridges, such as bridges in resident driveways, are highlighted, informing responding units of a potential hurdle.
Urban Water Solutions
Apartment complexes, sub-divisions, and urban development.
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New Developments
The implementation of new developments into a Guidebook provides responders with a look ahead on how a development will be laid out, future water supplies, and avoids the common fire service problem of when a in falls in the middle of a large dirt path on a sattelite image.
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Complicated Developments
Driveways for houses that are set back off the accessing road will be identified as a line, extending from the main road. These driveways will also be identified as to whether they are paved or unpaved (gravel and dirt), designated as dashed and solid lines.
