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Volume 4 Issue 4
My Phone is on Fire!
Apps to Help Keep you Safe, Entertained, and in the Right Place on the
Fire Line!
Avenza PDF Maps
Features: Read geospatial PDF,
Peak AR
Google Earth
Weather Underground
Features: Hyper Local weather forecasts
Interactive Radar / Satellite / Active Fire
Perimeters
Live data from personal weather stations
RAWS Stations
Availability: Apple / Android
Cost: FREE
Firefighter RH Calculator
Features: Basic relative humidity
calculator
Input air temperature, wet
bulb temperature, elevation
and click the bottom
Units need to be in
Fahrenheit and feet
Availability: Android
Cost: Free
Burnt Planet
Features: Access MODIS sensors
Global Natural Resource and Land
Management tool. It provides real time access
to global hotspot data generated by the MODIS
sensors aboard the Terra & Aqua satellites.
Availability: Apple ios/ Android
Cost: Free
IRPG-NWCG/IRPG-Full Wildland
Firefighter
Features: Reference of the
Incident Response Pocket Guide
Standard Firefighting
Orders
Fireline Handbook
Red Book
Rx Fire Burn Templates
Add your own files
And More!
Availability: Android /
Cost: Free & $3.87
Wildland Toolkit
Features: Reference Guide &
Calculator
RH & Dewpoint
Fine Dead Fuel Moisture
Probability of Ignition
Flame Length
Rate of Spread
Scorch Height
Direction of Max Spread
Effective Wind Speed
Availability: Apple
Cost: $5.99
Compass
Shows Latitude and
Longitude quickly for
size up reporting.
This list of Apps was put together by Jason Hattersley a USFS employee on the George Washington
and Jefferson National Forest, James River and Warm Springs Ranger District. He presented these at
the Central Appalachians Fire Learning Network meeting on November 5, 2014 in Warm Springs,
VA.
Join CAFMS:
The consortium is for all land managers and researchers in the region who deal with any aspect of fire. To join, simply
provide us with some contact information at the web site listed below.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDNiUnFrYzNNVU00dkxka1hKM2p0cFE6MQ
www.CAFMS.org