The future of fire-fighting?
I'm a sucker for these vision videos. With the temperatures slowly rising and summer just around the corner, this video, which shows a vision of the future of emergency response management seems timely at least for the West coast. As with all vision statements, this one's probably more in the future than in reality and it's got a lot of extra fluff in there that probably won't make the cut in the target state, but it's still interesting to watch.
For some reason, the part that I like the best is the GPS mapping at the end. I think this is probably because I used to bike along old (and sometimes long abandoned) fire trails in the Blue Ridge escarpment. While it would have ruined some of the adventure, something like the GPS heads-up display shown in the video would have been very handy in places where things like road signs don't exist.
