Wildland fire operations

Know where every unit is. Before the chief asks.

DripTorch gives wildland fire crews and incident commanders a shared operational picture during active assignments — live tracking, on-incident operations, and logging in one app.

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Free for volunteer departments — up to 20 members and 200 incidents per year. Grow with us when you scale. iOS & Android — installs to your phone, no app store hunt Works offline

See it in action

A live operational picture.

The same incident map a chief sees, running the same code as the app — synthetic snapshot of the 2017 Rice Ridge Fire near Seeley Lake, MT. 250 resources across 5 operational divisions, point-protection on backcountry cabins, with breadcrumb trails and lookout coverage cones.

What it does

Three jobs, one screen.

Designed for the conditions and chain-of-command of wildland fire response. No glove-defeating taps; no syncing surprises mid-assignment.

Live unit tracking

Crews share location only on shift. Off-shift toggle disables location entirely. Low battery usage — runs in the background without draining your phone.

On-incident operations

Connected to your Active911 dispatch — En route, On scene, Cleared status flows to the chief in seconds. Firefighters tap a need (water, backup, fuel) — no double-entry, no tab-switching.

Operational logging

Every assignment, status change, and arrival is timestamped and logged. After-action reports build themselves — pull a CSV for the agency record at end of incident.

Field-first design

Made for dirty hands and bright sun.

Designed for the line, not the office. Every button sized for gloved hands. Every screen tested in midday sun.

Big buttons — sized for gloved hands. No fat-finger mistakes.
Easy to read — in bright sun, smoke, and at night.
Works without an internet connection — updates send when you're back in service.
Connected to your Active911 dispatch — En route, On scene, Cleared status flows to the chief in seconds. Firefighters tap a need (water, backup, fuel) — no double-entry, no tab-switching.

Why we built this

To save firefighter lives.

Communication failures are the most common thread in wildland firefighter deaths. DripTorch was built to close that gap.

Off-grid by design. Engines run on Starlink Mini. Phones stay connected via T-Mobile T-Satellite — no inReach, no second device.

An addition to your operations and incident command — not a replacement for 911.

Who built this

A volunteer firefighter with the engineering toolkit to fix this.

The founder has been a volunteer wildland firefighter for the last three years. His background — cybersecurity, cloud engineering, secure network implementation, secure communications, and privacy & compliance — gave him the foundation to build the technology necessary to solve the problem no one else would.

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