By Lily Bixler
The Half Moon Bay Review
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The entire Coastside is mapped out on a dry erase board in the firehouse. It’s on that 20-by-8-foot map that crews look up the location of a fire or medical call and plan their course of action. Over the years, the firefighters have attached print-out map addendums because the master map hasn’t been updated with newly developed areas.
Now, a new firefighting tool may make that wall map obsolete.
In recent months, local crews have gotten nine iPads. The devices let firefighters run business inspections digitally, and, perhaps more significantly, they provide portable mapping software to help crews navigate the coast.
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