Our community is blind for the first three hours of a fire. Not anymore. Every fire is seen by someone before it is seen by the system. Pick your chair:
You are the first to see it.
Every fire is watched within minutes. By a hiker, a driver, a neighbor on a porch. What's missing is the loop that turns all that seeing into a live picture anyone can act on. alert.live puts your eyes on the shared map, and puts the shared map in your hand.
Join the community pilot ▸One app, from curiosity to survival.
There have never been more cameras pointed at the world: phones, doorbells, dashcams, fixed camera networks. And there has never been more demand for realtime intel about your relevant operating picture: your road, your ridge, your kids' school. Today those two facts barely touch. alert.live is the loop that connects them.
A resident has an address. A citizen has perception and action. You are a member of the flock, never an instrument of a system. Your phone is a sensor only in the way your neighbor's eyes are: because you chose to look, and chose to share. The collective-intelligence section below is yours most of all.
The hunger is proven. During the January 2025 Los Angeles fires, Watch Duty reached the top of the App Store and was reported in use by more than eight million people in a single week. People want more than alerts. They want to see. alert.live adds the next step: what you see joins the shared picture, georectified, while it still matters.
Stay in the black. Make the buffer a number.
On June 30, 2013, nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots died on the Yarnell Hill Fire. Bravo 33 was overhead, working the air attack role. A heavy tanker was overhead, looking for the crew, and could not find them. The people in radio contact believed the crew was in the black and assumed they would stay there. No one on the fire knew the crew had left it. The fire overtook them in unburned ground on the way to a safety zone.
Collectively, there were eyes on that fire. What did not exist was one shared picture carrying them all.
Facts per the Yarnell Hill Fire Serious Accident Investigation Report, 2013.
What was needed fit in one radio message: the crew's time buffer to the safety zone had gone from the early afternoon forecast, to observed fire behavior, to minutes, to negative. Stay in the black.
One picture, two rooms. alert.live works the capture side: every eye on scene, georectified into one live picture. AnyHazard is the sandtable interface crews already train and brief on; its live-incident counterpart, anyhazard.live, is standing up now. The line and the table share one picture.
Dual flow. Facilitating collective intel, never collecting it.
The 2019 Maria Fire is the field record: imagery captured on scene and georectified live. The featured video above is that record. For the PIO this is a promotion. Authoritative warnings go out with live imagery attached. Community eyes come in as verifiable, georectified views. The channel stays two-way, and the fire never outruns it.
In the Camp Fire, 2018, 85 people died. In Lahaina, 2023, 102 people died; the outdoor warning sirens were not sounded, and survivors described learning the danger from smoke and flame. In the Palisades Fire, 2025, 12 people died. Three fires, one repeating pattern: information existed at the edge and did not reach the center in time, and the center's word reached the edge too late.
Tolls per Britannica and PBS Frontline (Camp Fire), Maui County via AP reporting (Lahaina, confirmed count after DNA consolidation), and the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner (Palisades).
The failure mode is architectural, and this architecture is its negation. Dispatch that can see what the street sees. Warnings that carry the picture, so a resident can weigh their own eyes against the official word. No claims about the past. A design for the next one.
Scrub the first three hours. Watch the blind spot fill.
A representative ignition timeline: fixed camera networks, citizen phones, satellite passes about every 20 minutes, crews, a news helicopter, an IR mapping flight. Toggle alert.live and watch the circle of uncertainty collapse as every source lands on one shared, georeferenced map.
Imagery is the interface. All eyes, all hands, all lands.
Every camera, phone, satellite, and sensor joins one shared, georeferenced picture. Each new view throws threads to every other. This pixel is that ridge; your frame's stop sign finds itself in mine. With every thread the fire's position sharpens.
Nobody waits for the picture to arrive. The people on scene are the picture: crews, neighbors, lookouts, aircraft. Each one is another eye on the risk, each view georectified live to real-world coordinates.
Where no camera sees, the map says so honestly. Inference is shown as inference, never dressed up as ground truth.
From collecting intelligence to enabling collective intelligence.
Ant colonies have no queen directing traffic. Flocks have no lead bird. Neighbors are the first first responders. The picture emerges because every member senses locally and shares honestly, and everyone moves by the same picture. alert.live is built the same way.
No center to fail
There is no central repository. Views flow both ways: the community's cameras help the crew see, and the crew's picture reaches the community while it still matters.
Ground truth anyone can verify
Filtered summaries, hours late, cost lives. Georectified imagery is evidence anyone can verify: the same scene, from many eyes, snapped to the same coordinates.
Layers you control
Private → group → public. A crew channel, an interagency channel, a public alert. Share exactly the picture you mean to, the moment you mean to.
How it works: from what you see to what everyone knows.
Proven on real incidents.
Three field records, each seated with the audience whose story it is. The third is featured above for the chair you chose.
Bring it to your community.
Citizens & communities
Your eyes make the picture. Be one of the first communities to run alert.live, on the phones you already carry.
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Put alert.live on your next incident. It runs on the phones and cameras your crews already carry, inside the contract you already have.
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Be the agency that sees first and shares truth first. Steward the two-way channel and shape how your county authors its shared picture.
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