Fire Prep Kit
A few minutes of fire preparedness could save your home and family one day.
Fire Prep Kit is a nonprofit project whose goal is to make the world a better place by saving lives and homes.
Background
Over the past few years, wildfires have swept across California in increasing numbers. Firefighters have battled these fires around the clock to save lives and homes. When fire threatens a home, families typically have under three minutes to grab their belongings and get out. Fire Prep Kit is an open source mobile app that aims to increase the number of lives and homes saved when fires strike.
While we are starting with our local community, our goal is to make Fire Prep Kit useful to communities around the world. Through the project, we hope to educate communities about fire preparedness and encourage people to take an active role in learning about fire safety.
We believe the more you understand your fire risk level, the more you can take actions to protect your family. Seeing where you reside on a fire hazard map can motivate you to be more prepared. Then, interactive checklists allow you to reduce your overall risk by addressing potential fire dangers around your home. A 3D home scanner allows you to create an evacuation map, useful to not just your household but also your local fire department.
Free and Open Source
Everyone who wants to help build Fire Prep Kit is invited to contribute.
To get started, check out the Fire Prep Kit repo on GitHub:
Getting the Fire Prep Kit App
Our Fire Prep Kit app will be available in 2020 in the Google Play store for Android phones, with the iOS version to follow shortly after.
In the meantime if you want to see what we have so far, you can download the Android APK file by clicking here. Then, install it on your phone. Large phones like the Pixel 3 XL are recommended for best viewing, as this is a pre-alpha build.
Alternately, you can build it from source following the instructions at https://github.com/cartwheel/FirePrepKitAndroidUnity
Fire Prep Kit is a World Improvement Lab project
What is World Improvement Lab?
We are a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the world iteratively through small projects that make a difference.
Using our skills with technology, art, writing, and design, our goal is to make meaningful change in scalable ways.
For example, through Fire Prep Kit, we hope to help millions of people around the world be prepared before fire strikes.
Meet the Team
Development work on the Fire Prep Kit app is led by Daniel Roy Greenfeld and Audrey Roy Greenfeld, with moral support from our baby daughter Uma.
We built FirePrepKit to protect our family and home. With all the fires in Southern California, we knew it was important to improve our preparedness. We also wanted to use our skills to help others like us. Hearing stories from emergency responders at the Tech to Protect Challenge helped shape this app too - firefighters, police officers, EMTs, and advisers from various emergency response-related systems are also part of our team.
