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Towers that sweep, not stare.
Any PTZ or fixed camera on the ridge. Firecrest sets the sweep, keeps a clean-sky baseline per heading and flags change, not motion.
Firecrest pairs your tower cameras with the people who know the hills. A plume is seen, confirmed and placed on the map in minutes — not when someone on the highway calls it in.
Hollow Peak · north slope
Watching 2.1 million acres with 140 fire districts
Any PTZ or fixed camera on the ridge. Firecrest sets the sweep, keeps a clean-sky baseline per heading and flags change, not motion.
Volunteers and retired crews confirm crops from their phones. Shifts follow the fire-weather forecast, so nobody watches a wet Tuesday.
from the first pixel of smoke to a packet on the dispatcher's screen.
Each confirmation carries a heading. Where they cross, Firecrest draws the ellipse and pulls parcel, fuel model and the nearest gate.
From Hollow Peak, 14 August 2025. Real sequence, names changed. No 911 call had come in when the engine rolled.
The Pine Ridge camera sees a grey column rise 3 % against the ridge haze. Confidence 0.41 — not enough to page anyone yet.
Mara, on shift at Cedar Gap, gets a quiet nudge with the crop. She confirms smoke, not dust, and drops her bearing: 304°.
Two bearings meet over the north slope of Hollow Peak. Firecrest draws a 900 m ellipse and pulls the parcel, fuel model and road access.
One packet to the county CAD: location, wind, nearest water, photos from two angles. Four minutes and eight seconds from first pixel.
Join a district roster, confirm sightings from your phone, log hours toward certification.
Camera ingestion, smoke detection and a lookout network wired straight into your dispatch.
Shared views across counties and land managers, with mutual-aid rules that route each plume.
Most districts are watching within a week of their first call. We bring the mounts, you bring the lookouts.