Fire and rescue is one of the harder routing problems in emergency services. Appliances are heavy and wide — a 26-tonne pump can’t transit every road a car can. Speed humps are the difference between a smooth arrival and a hard one when you’ve got crew and equipment on board. Hydrant locations matter from the moment you turn out, not when you arrive.
Blue Light Maps was built around these constraints. Every route accounts for appliance dimensions and weight against the road’s real characteristics — not just the headline mapping data. Hydrant overlays appear as you near the incident with capacity flow rates from your service’s records. Risk data — vulnerable persons, hazmat, structural notes — surfaces in the briefing pane while you’re en route, not after you arrive.
Rendezvous points for multi-pump incidents are first-class objects: dispatchers can drop an RVP via CAD and every responding crew sees it on their map within a second. Sector commanders get the same picture from a different angle — incident-side, with crew positions visible. The whole tool was designed to make sense to someone driving an appliance, not someone designing software.