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Hacking California Wildfires: Pipes/CHP/Twitter

Posted on June 24, 2008

A wildfire popped up here in San Diego yesterday about 2 miles east of my house. It was more than a little unnerving, as the picture here from someone closer to the fires shows (courtesy of NBC San Diego.) I don't like not knowing about stuff like this as it's happening, so my response was to build a Yahoo Pipes mashup extracting fire spottings from live California Highway Patrol incident reports for San Diego. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, the CHP knows about everything in California first, from carjackings to wildland fires.) I then took that extracted fire data and sent it, via TwitterFeed, to ...

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