Fire Response Situational Awareness API
Every day, the Philadelphia Fire Department responds to hundreds or even thousands of locations to deal with an array of emergencies. Currently, the Fire Department has little ‘situational awareness’ of fire risk for a given location when an emergency call comes in. In this project, we aim to improve this situation by creating a new API tool, which can return two deliverables for each property in the city:
- Parcel-level information for the building on fire and surrounding buildings
- Parcel-level (building) fire risk assessment based on the city’s existing open datasets and past fire events
In addition, we want to let residents get a real-time update of the fire risk of their houses so they will have a situational awareness on risk for each property citywide.
The project is intended to present the methodology of an analysis of property fire risk in Philadelphia and an API tool that aims to improve the fire department’s situational awareness. This new API tool can provide real-time information and assessment for all parcels in the city. This document also includes detailed codes for building the risk assessment model and the situational awareness API.
