Starting the evening of Friday February19th thanks to Chief Bonnee the LMRFD will have improved response times because of new accurate GPS data called a shapefile.
In addition to pagers the fire district uses an app called Active911 to provide basic call information as well as a map to route firefighters from their location to the call using GPS.
If you use GPS on your phone then more than likely it's using Google Maps. Around Dolan Springs and Meadview if you use GPS you know that where your GPS says an address is, and where an address really is, can be two different locations.
Active911 uses Google Map addresses for routing unless other GIS mapping data called a shapefile is provided. That's what Chief Bonnee did. He provided the Mohave County GIS shapefile for the LMRFD to Active911 for their WIZ mapping system.
BUT then it got better... Active911's Jennifer Davis and Mohave County GIS Coordinator Steve Engle went above and beyond. Working together they provided the shapefile for not only the fire district, but also for the LMRFD CON to Active911. The CON is the 2000 or so square miles the LMRFD ambulance covers.
Now when our firefighters respond on fire calls or EMS calls, the address they see on their Active911 map is from the Mohave County GIS map and not a really good guess from Google Maps.
This accurate mapping information will improve response times across the entire area not just the fire district.
Understanding Active911's WIZ Mapping System
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