Wildland fire operations

Know where every unit is. Before the chief asks.

DripTorch gives wildland fire crews and incident commanders a shared operational picture during active assignments — live tracking, on-incident operations, and logging in one app.

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A live operational picture.

The same incident map a chief sees, running the same code as the app — with synthetic unit positions on a Type-3 wildland fire near Lake Tahoe.

What it does

Three jobs, one screen.

Designed for the conditions and chain-of-command of wildland fire response. No glove-defeating taps; no syncing surprises mid-assignment.

Live unit tracking

Crews share location only on shift. Off-shift toggle disables location entirely. Low battery usage — runs in the background without draining your phone.

On-incident operations

Assign units to active incidents from a map view. Status updates flow to the chief in seconds — En route, On scene, Cleared. No radio call needed for the routine.

Operational logging

Every assignment, status change, and arrival is timestamped and logged. After-action reports build themselves — pull a CSV for the agency record at end of incident.

Field-first design

Made for dirty hands and bright sun.

Designed for the line, not the office. Every button sized for gloved hands. Every screen tested in midday sun.

  • Big buttons — sized for gloved hands. No fat-finger mistakes.
  • Easy to read — in bright sun, smoke, and at night.
  • Works without an internet connection — updates send when you're back in service.
  • One tap to change status — En route, On scene, Cleared. No menus, no scrolling.
Why we built this

To save firefighter lives.

Communication failures are the most common thread in wildland firefighter deaths. DripTorch was built to close that gap.

Every unit on one map. Instant knowledge sharing. Satellite communications.

An addition to your operations and incident command — not a replacement for 911.

Who built this

A volunteer firefighter with the engineering toolkit to fix this.

The founder has been a volunteer wildland firefighter for the last three years. His background — cybersecurity, cloud engineering, secure network implementation, secure communications, and privacy & compliance — gave him the foundation to build the technology necessary to solve the problem no one else would.

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