FireGuard: Emergency & Safety

Chris Zaikis

About this app

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FireGuard is a personal safety companion for fire awareness, natural hazards, severe weather and emergency preparedness.

It helps you stay informed with active fire information, weather-based risk insights, satellite fire detections, local forecasts, location-based alerts and emergency tools in one mobile app.

KEY FEATURES

Fire and hazard awareness
- Active fire incident awareness where available
- Wildland and urban fire context
- Interactive fire and hazard maps
- Satellite thermal hotspot layers from public sources
- Location-based proximity alerts
- Fire-weather risk insights
- Earthquake, flood and winter-hazard awareness where data is available

Satellite fire detection
FireGuard uses public satellite-derived fire information from sources such as NASA FIRMS, VIIRS, MODIS and Copernicus EFFIS.

Satellite observations provide additional situational awareness, but they do not always represent confirmed fires. Clouds, smoke, industrial heat sources, satellite timing and sensor resolution may affect detections.

Weather intelligence
- Hourly weather forecasts
- 5-day forecast
- Temperature and apparent temperature
- Humidity, wind, pressure and precipitation
- Beaufort wind scale
- Air quality indicators
- GPS-based local weather
- Multi-location monitoring when enabled

Emergency support
- Emergency Profile
- Medical information, allergies, medications and emergency contacts
- One-tap emergency calling
- SOS location sharing with coordinates when activated by the user
- Area-based push notifications for important nearby incidents up to 50 km
- Offline safety information where available
- Fire and hazard safety checklists
- Critical Alerts support where available

Live location sharing
During an emergency, FireGuard can help you share your location with trusted contacts.

Sharing is opt-in. You choose when sharing starts and can stop it at any time. Location sharing is designed for emergency support and situational awareness.

Accessibility and privacy
- Larger text support for better readability
- Dark and light themes
- User-controlled permissions
- Battery-conscious operation
- No advertising
- No sale of personal data
- No data mining for advertising
- Privacy-focused data handling

DATA SOURCES

FireGuard uses public and authoritative data sources where available, including:
- NASA FIRMS for active fire detections
- VIIRS and MODIS satellite observations
- Copernicus EFFIS for European fire information
- USGS for earthquake information
- OpenWeatherMap for weather forecasts
- WAQI for air quality
- Mapbox and OpenStreetMap for map data
- National and regional alert sources where supported

IMPORTANT NOTICE

FireGuard is a situational awareness, fire monitoring, weather intelligence and emergency support app.

It does not replace emergency services, fire departments, civil protection authorities, official warnings, evacuation orders or meteorological authorities.

Fire locations, satellite observations, weather data, AI-assisted summaries and risk calculations may contain delays, inaccuracies or interruptions.

In an emergency, always follow official local authority instructions and contact the appropriate emergency service.