About resident.alerts
A live map of what police, fire and paramedics are being sent to near you, with a push the moment something happens near the places you care about. Like the paid safety apps, for the price of a coffee once instead of a subscription, and without the tracking.
Free
- Live map and list of 911 incidents, weather warnings, earthquakes and wildfires, last 24 hours
- Wildfires the way Watch Duty shows them: every active fire with its mapped perimeter, acres and containment (NIFC and CAL FIRE), evacuation orders and warnings by zone, satellite heat detections, red flag warnings, and the wind, humidity and air quality at each fire
- Follow a fire: a push each time it grows, gets more contained, or is out; and an alert when a fire's edge comes within your place's radius
- Push alerts for one place within 3 miles, each kind of call on or off, serious-only mode
- Police and fire radio for your county
- Comments on every incident, a neighborhood chat, and your own reports with photos and videos (location data stripped before they go public)
- Shareable incident pages; an API, a command line, a terminal UI and an MCP server
- No ads. No selling your location. The map, radio and one alert place need no account at all
Codes and invites
A credit code someone gave you goes in your account under "Have a code?": a Premium code switches on lifetime Premium, the same as buying it. Every account also has three single-use invite links (Invites) and a link of its own to share.
Accounts
Sign in with CoinPay, or with just your email (a one-time link, no password), to post, comment and share photos and videos, and to keep Premium and your alert places on every device. We email you sign-in links, Premium receipts and, only if you leave the box ticked, a few updates a year.
Premium: $4.99 once, for life
- Alerts for up to 25 places (home, work, school, family), each up to 50 miles
- 7 and 30 days of history on the map and in the API
- Paid once in crypto through CoinPay. No subscription, nothing to cancel
How it works
Cities and counties publish their dispatched calls as open data. We read those feeds every few minutes (see coverage), put each call on the map, and check it against the places devices asked about. Your places are stored with your device's push subscription and nothing else: no name, no account. Turn alerts off and they are deleted.
Your location stays in your browser. The map asks our server for incidents in the area on screen; it never sends where you are standing unless you add it as a place.
What it is not
Not an emergency service. If you need help, call 911. Dispatch data is preliminary: call types change, locations are often a block or an intersection, and some calls are withheld by the agency for privacy. Resident reports are what neighbors posted: they are marked unverified, alert nobody until two other residents confirm them, and disappear after three flags.
Community rules
You post under a name you pick; your email is never shown. Do not post faces of victims, license plates, home addresses or anything that puts someone at risk. No harassment, no vigilantism, no spam. Three flags hide a post; abusive names are banned with the network they posted from.
Open source
The code is MIT-licensed at github.com/moshcoder/resident.alerts. resident.alerts is a Moshpit name; on the old internet it is resident.alerts.pit.world.
v0.7.0