Specialties
FireWhat Inc. is an emergency service company, bringing life saving innovation to a technology deprived industry. The company is based in the northern California town of Dunsmuir.
The staff at FireWhat Inc. have created mobile applications and web portals that save time, streamline communication, provide a massive reduction in taxpayer expense, and improve emergency response personnel safety, delivering a streamlined response to disasters.
FireWhat is proud to partner with College of the Siskiyous Fire and Emergency Services Technology Program. The partnerships brings students throughout the Western United States to learn Fire and Emergency service curriculum, and hands on skills. Classes are held insure from October to June each year.
Finally, FireWhat has experienced grant writers on staff who have brought over 7.9 million dollars to communities throughout Northern California.
History
Established in 2010.
FireWhat was founded in the Fall of 2010 by the idea of creating a place for firefighters to learn and share incidents from the past. The idea came about from several road trips across the world, and finally a team of founders were brought together to create the dreams. As the project developed, the idea to create a resource for incident information came to be.
On July 1st, 2011, FireWhat.com was born. And soon following the baby brother, The FireWhat Wildfire Suite of mobile applications were delivered Oct 15th, 2011.
Today FireWhat is tredging forward developing new disruptive technologies for Fire and Emergency Services.
Meet the Business Owner: Sam L.
Sam started his fire service career at the age of 15 with Hammond Ranch Fire Company, and has continually worked for CALFIRE as a fire captain for the last 13 years. Sam spent two years working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as a Federal Grant Administrator. During his time with FEMA, Sam was in charge of forty-one million dollars in federal grant funds, and had the opportunity to visit several thousand fire departments in the western United States.
Sam saw the lack of communication and technological capability among fire departments and other resources responding to an incident. Sam was concerned about what he saw from local citizens involved, and brought some of these issues to the forefront in US Congressional Fire Act hearings. Sam has taught firefighting and EMS classes throughout his career, in both private and public institutions, constantly updating and improving teaching technique and sharing innovation with fellow trainers. As one of the original share