“We said … I think we should do what we’ve always talked about doing, which is change our entire idea around and make it apply to a disaster response. … It would give us a better chance at the U.S. finals. So, that basically meant staying up past midnight for at least two weeks straight. Way more work than we thought it was going to be. But we knew that was a really our only shot at the U.S. finals.”

“Getting live or real time photographs as well as the geographic information — the lat, long, addresses — and then tagging it with a particular hazard identifier, would give us this tremendous information of what’s occurring in the community during and post of disaster. And then be able to quantify that so that we can address the resource needs in those areas.”

“Being able to see the incident as it’s evolving while we are still responding will give the incident commander valuable information to set up his action plan on how to mitigate that incident. Such things as the size of the fire or maybe the type of auto accident that is involved, how many patients that we may be having to respond to.”

“Meeting with civil defense has just been amazing. We had a meeting this past Monday, and there’s just an incredible amount of the public servants there that were interested in taking up a great majority of their Monday’s during the weekdays to listen to us and offer feedback. we just have had an incredible past three months doing things we never thought we would do. We want to continue going
forward with this.”