WildWareness

Canvas/Slack Group Number: 03

Project Name: WildWareness

Link to Website

https://wildwareness.net/

Git SHA

• 8d43d71de41f403a9b9f24fb257467e15bc7f68a

API Documentation

• API Design - Postman

Team Members:

• Milan Dhaduk @mdhaduk
• Audrey Tan @akt2468
• Zakaria Sisalem @sisalemz
• Pooja Vasanthan @PoojaVasanthan10

Phase 1 leader: Milan Dhaduk
Responsibilites: Determine meeting times, assign tasks, ensure progress being made.

Phase 2 leader: Pooja Vasanthan
Responsibilites: Determine meeting times, assign tasks, ensure progress being made.

Phase 3 leader: Audrey Tan
Responsibilites: Determine meeting times, assign tasks, ensure progress being made.

Phase 4 leader: Zakaria Sisalem
Responsibilites: Determine meeting times, assign tasks, ensure progress being made.

Estimated Time to Completion:

• Milan Dhaduk - 11 hours
• Audrey Tan - 10 hours
• Zakaria Sisalem - 10 hours
• Pooja Vasanthan - 10 hours

Actual Time to Completion:

• Milan Dhaduk - 16 hours
• Audrey Tan - 13 hours
• Zakaria Sisalem - 12 hours
• Pooja Vasanthan - 13 hours

Proposed Project:

WildWareness is a web application designed to provide real-time wildfire information, emergency shelter locations, and community-reported fire updates in the state of California.

The platform serves:

• People in wildfire-affected areas who need information on active fires and emergency shelters.
• Volunteers and first responders looking for ways to help communities impacted by wildfires.

Users can:

• Track active wildfires with real-time data.
• Find emergency shelters near affected areas.
• View and (eventually) submit community reports on wildfire conditions.

Data Sources (RESTful APIs and Web Scraping)

• CAL FIRE – Reports active and past wildfires with containment details (2025)
• NewsData.io API- Community/local reports and headlinges fetched from NewsData.io
• Google Places API- Google's API used for fetching information about a location on Google Maps.
• Google Maps Geocoding API - a service that allows you to convert addresses into geographic coordinates (latitude & longitude) and vice versa (reverse geocoding).
• List of Emergency Shelters Website - a website containing a list of emergency shelters by county and city in the form of text.

Models:

1. Wildfire Incidents

Attributes:

• Fire Name
• County
• Location
• Date/time
• Acres Burned

Estimated Instances: ~3,500
Connections: Linked to Emergency Shelters and Community Reports
Media Types:

• Satellite images of fires
• Interactive maps
• Embedded Videos
• Text

2. Emergency Shelters

Attributes:

• Name
• Address
• City
• Contact Info
• Status (Open/Closed)

Estimated Instances: ~1000
Connections: Linked to Wildfire Incidents and Community Reports
Media Types:

• Images of shelter locations
• Interactive Maps of Shelter
• Other Embedded Media (such as forms from shelter's website)
• Text and Links

3. Community Reports

Attributes:

• Source
• Date/time
• Category
• Region
• Reporter

Estimated Instances: ~5000+
Connections: Linked to Wildfire Incidents and Emergency Shelters Media Types:

• Images of Fires, Emergency Response, etc
• Interactive Maps
• Embedded Videos
• Text and Links

Questions the Site Will Answer

• Where are the current wildfires near me?
• In California, what emergency shelters are open for wildfire evacuees?
• Are there any community-reported updates on fire conditions in my area?

Comments

• It's important to note that we referenced last year's HomelessAid in developing our HTML/CSS for Phase I