Putting Online Technology to use for Situational Awareness

This article is from Charlottesville FD Chief Charles Werner

This is a view of Charlottesvilles VueTOO. You can visit it here to see it for yourself.

Just want everyone to share how the Charlottesville FD using VueTOO to develop a multi-pane website view to serve as a regional situational dashboard. Hope this is helpful as it attempts to put a variety of information on your desktop and only a click away.

The following website is setup to help see situational information as close to real time for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Community:

http://216.205.75.5/CharlottesvilleFire/SituationPageNews.asp?sit=33&af=1

WebEOC access is provided to each authorized agency representative, not included in this email for security reasons.

This dashboard simultaneously displays:
The ‘Hook’ Downtown Camera (with the Hook’s permission)
CFD and CARS Emergency Response Links
NOAA – National Weather Map Overlay
Blacksburg/Sterling Weather Radars
VA 511 Road Conditions
Dominion Virginia Power Outage Map
Charlottesville Snow Page

Each pane or window can be opened or expanded by left clicking. Each individual pane can be updated/refreshed by right clicking your mouse.