Fire brigade maps city risk to improve emergency response
Written by terry on March 27, 2013 at 11:00
To respond better in emergencies a fire brigade in Amsterdam has mapped the risks in the city by combining 600,000 objects such as buildings, railways and roads with possible incident types such as fires and traffic accidents.
This allows them to build a risk profile of particular streets and understand the types of incident that are most common in particular locations and helps them to benchmark its performance against national standards.
The team has also used the tool to reduce the chance of fire in certain areas. By analysing the data they found that 20 percent of all fires in the whole district were caused by unsafe cooking.
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