Firehawk
Wild Fire Detection Companion
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
FireHub is the operator companion for the FireHawk fire detection network — real-time wildfire alerts delivered straight to your phone the moment a tower camera spots smoke or
flame.
Built for forestry teams, plantation operators, and emergency response crews, FireHub turns a network of remote detection cameras into a coordinated response platform.
WHAT'S INSIDE
• Real-time fire alerts — push notifications hit your lock screen within seconds of detection
• Camera-based detection — see live imagery from the tower that picked up the fire, with auto-preset framing on the source quadrant
• Bearing triangulation — when two or more cameras see the same fire, sight-lines on the in-app map narrow down its location for response teams
• Fire history — the last 48 hours of fires across your access scope, sorted by time, with age badges that update live
• Camera & weather coverage — see what each tower's looking at and the local Fire Danger Index for that area
• Pilot view — turn-by-turn navigation to a fire (Google Maps or Waze) with live bearing + distance from your current position
• Custom alert tones — pick from four fire-themed sounds (Bell, Klaxon, Alarm, Siren) so FireHub notifications are unmistakeable on the lock screen
• Sign in with Google — one tap, no password to forget
• Seamless web handoff — "Open in Firehub" jumps straight into the full PWA dashboard, already signed in
DESIGNED FOR THE FIELD
FireHub is built for people working long shifts, often offline, often gloved. The interface is dark, large-text, and one-thumb navigable. Common actions (open Google Maps to the
fire, tap into the camera image, navigate as the responding pilot) are one tap from any fire row.
PRIVACY & DATA
FireHub uses your location only when you ask for navigation to a fire. Push tokens are stored against your user account to deliver alerts and are removed when you log out. We
don't share your data with third parties.
more • New fires arriving while FireHub is open now show a banner, play the alert sound and appear in the list straight away.
• Clearer when something goes wrong: screens that couldn't load now say so and offer Retry instead of showing an empty list or loading forever, and the Fires list shows when it was last updated.
• Deleting a FireFence zone, blocking or deleting a user, and re-aiming every camera now ask you to confirm first.
• Notification settings now show when alerts are switched off in iOS Settings, with a shortcut to turn them back on.
• Text now follows your iPhone's text size setting, colours are easier to read, buttons are easier to tap, and VoiceOver reads every control properly.
• You can swipe back from the edge of the screen everywhere.
• Performance and reliability improvements.
3.67.0 29 Oct
• Meet the Firehawk. Pull down on a list and the bird unfurls as you drag, then its flames flicker while new data loads. It has replaced the plain spinner everywhere the app is loading a screen.
• Layout updates for iPhone Duo: on the inner display every split screen now uses the fold as its divider, with the list on one panel and the detail on the other, whether the phone is fully or partially open.
• Performance and reliability improvements.
3.65.0 21 Oct
• Weather stations now show a 7-day fire danger outlook: one coloured square per day with its FDI number, right under the live readings. Days that call for extra caution are marked with a dot — this can appear even on a Moderate day, so treat it as a heads-up rather than a rating.
• Tap a station to open the full forecast: temperature, humidity, wind and direction, rain and the fire danger rating for each of the next seven days, along with when the forecast was made.
• Offline stations show the forecast too. It comes from the station's location rather than its sensor, so it stays useful when the station itself has stopped reporting.
3.63.0 9 Sept
• Requesting access is now one request: tick the areas you need and tap Send. If you ask for more than a few areas, a popup asks you to say why so the area managers can place you.
• Areas that require a membership number ask for it when you tick them. If you already have access to such an area, a popup asks for your number once a day; it can be skipped five times before it must be entered.
• Onboarding explains up front that each area's managers approve access, and asks for your company.
• Approvals (managers): one card per person showing company, reason, membership numbers and what they already hold. Tick individual areas to approve or reject just those, or use Approve all / Reject all. Repeatedly declined requesters are flagged as suspicious.
3.62.5 9 Sept
Access and security
• Fire alerts, inbox items and shared links now open only for towers in your approved areas. Outside them you'll see an access notice instead of the fire.
• Requesting or withdrawing access to an area is now handled on our servers, so it reaches administrators immediately and can't be altered on the device.
Fixes
• The fires list fills in the moment your first area is approved, instead of staying empty until you next return to the app.
3.61.0 5 Sept
• When an administrator approves, rejects or blocks an access request, everyone else who was notified now sees the outcome and who actioned it, instead of a request that never clears from their inbox.
• Access requests in the inbox are marked with a tick, a cross or a no-entry sign, so you can see what happened to each one without opening it. Their text now wraps instead of being cut off after one line.
• Blocking someone from the Approvals list removes their pending requests from every area at once. Before, only the request you were looking at was cleared, so the same blocked person stayed waiting in other administrators' lists where nobody could action them.
• Everyone signing up now has an email address on their account, including sign-ups through Google and Apple. Without one, administrators had no way to block that person.
3.60.0 28 Aug
• You can now edit your profile in the app — name, phone number and country — instead of being sent to the website. You can also change your password, and see your organisation, access level and tower count in one place.
• Fixed Tower Filtering, where the switches wouldn't respond at all if you have a lot of towers. You can now tap anywhere on a row to hide or show that tower.
• If you signed up with a work email address, FireHub can now link your account to your organisation and add their shared map layers to your maps. You'll be asked during setup, or once when you next open the app. Saying no is remembered.
• Fixed the fire fence reminder never appearing. If your fire alerts were on but you hadn't drawn a fence, the prompt telling you that fires only alert inside a fence wasn't showing up.
• Administrators can block an unwanted access request outright from the Approvals list, which also stops that person signing up again.
• Fixed the Approvals list showing up empty for senior administrators — it now lists every request waiting on them.
• You can no longer send an access request to a site that has been switched off, which previously went nowhere.
• Pull to refresh now works properly on Fires, Approvals and the Inbox. The spinner used to disappear the instant you let go, which made it look like nothing had happened — it now stays up until the new data has actually arrived.
3.56.0 25 Aug
• Map pins are clearer: fires and camera towers now show as colour-coded flame and camera badges instead of plain markers, so you can tell at a glance what you're looking at.
• Fixed the Fires map opening on the wrong part of the country — it now always frames your own fires.
• Fixed "Send test notification" in Settings, which was failing with an error instead of sending.
3.53.2 13 Aug
• Home Screen widgets are back and better: Latest Detection, a new Fire Danger widget, and a full overview widget — with Lock Screen versions and controls to flip through fires and stations right on the widget.
• Fires map: pins are now colour-coded by age, so a fresh detection stands out from yesterday's.
• Weather: search your stations, wind gusts on every card, a clearer map, and a proper iPad grid layout.
• Cameras on iPad: searchable camera list, every preset visible at once in landscape, and a full-height map.
• Pilot mode now opens fires straight into the pilot view.
• Faster image loading with smarter caching, better responsiveness, and many fixes and refinements throughout.
3.53.1 13 Aug
New multi-camera view: open a fire to see the 3 nearest cameras automatically aimed at it — swipe through presets, compare against a daytime reference, and view the camera angles on a map. Plus the new Fire Fence tool to draw your own alert zones and get notified when a fire is detected inside one. The app now also tells you when a newer version is available, with a one-tap update so you're never stuck on an old build — plus in-app account sign-up and a clearer forgotten-password flow that reminds you to check your spam folder.
3.43.0 30 Jul
Tap any notification for a detail popup — fire, weather or access request — with a one-tap button to open the fire, the Weather tab, or the approvals queue. Weather alerts show which stations crossed into fire danger and their fire-danger index. Plus better big-screen and foldable layouts.
3.35.0 20 Jul
New: Occurrence Book on the fire detail — control-room logbook entries as a live timeline: alarms, calls, dispatches, milestones and weather updates. New: 12-hour forecast chart on the fire detail (temperature, wind, humidity, fire-danger bands). New: switch any map between satellite and standard view — the toggle is now on every map, always bottom-right. New: request access to more towers from Settings → Area access. Fire detail actions moved to the bottom bar; map controls now sit in the same corners on every map.
3.23.1 19 Jul
New: share buttons — share a fire, its detection history, or a camera preset as a web link that opens straight in the app for recipients who have it. New: pilots can switch the pilot-view map to heading-up (direction of travel up) with the HDG UP toggle. Better offline behaviour: a banner shows when your connection drops, the app keeps working on saved data, refreshes itself the moment the connection returns, and no longer sends existing users to onboarding after a flaky sign-in.
3.18.10 14 Jul
Bug fix: the Burn Scars overlay could report "No scars nearby" even when recent burn-scar mapping covered the area. The map now always finds the latest available mapping for your location.
3.17.3 11 Jul
New — Burn scars on the map: tap the "Burn scars" pill on a fire's mini-map, the camera map, or the Fire Spread view to see recently mapped burn scars around you in deep red, straight from satellite-based burn-scar mapping. Tap any scar for its size, severity and detection date, and watch live download progress while it loads.
New — Tower coverage on fire maps: toggle the detection tower's coverage area on the fire detail and Fire Spread maps with the cyan Coverage chip.
New — Fire Spread view: open it from the wind button on any fire that has a spread simulation. Scrub or play through the simulated hours to see how the fire is expected to grow, the weather driving each step, and a per-hour table of burned area and growth.
Performance and reliability improvements.
3.17.2 10 Jul
New — Coverage Area on the Cameras map: for towers that have a coverage area set up, tap the new toggle to see the tower's coverage drawn on the mini-map, with a slider to adjust how strongly it shows.
Day/Night overlay is now a switch: turn the daylight reference image on or off with a tap, then use the slider to blend it over the live view.
Polish and reliability improvements throughout.
3.13.0 7 Jul
Cameras: scroll the preset strip under the main image to switch presets — the hero image follows. Tapping a preset still works too.
Pick your app icon: Settings > App Icon now offers nine phoenix designs and switches your Home Screen icon instantly, with no system pop-up. There's a fresh default icon too.
Fire Movement Alerts: if a fire's position is corrected so it moves into or out of one of your red zones, FireHub now tells you instead of relying only on the first alert. Inbox rows show an icon for new, moved-in, and moved-out fires. Turn alerts off any time under Settings > Notifications.
Map Layers inspector: Settings > Map Layers now lists every synced layer and lets you open one to preview its shape and details. Polygon holes now render correctly on every map.
3.11.1 11 Jun
Performance and reliability improvements across notifications, cameras, and weather. Bug fixes.
3.8.9 27 May
• NEW: Map view on the Fires tab and the Weather tab. Toggle between list and map. Weather markers also show wind direction
as arrows.
• NEW: Tap any fire-detail image to open it fullscreen with pinch-to-zoom, pan, and double-tap.
• NEW: Day overlay on fire detail. Blend a daylight reference frame onto a night-time detection to locate features.
• NEW: Live weather card. On fire detail, toggle between Detection (conditions when the fire was first spotted) and Current
(live readings, updating in real time).
• iPad: completely redesigned with split-view layouts across all five tabs. Tap a row on the left, see the detail in the
right pane.
• Notifications. Test notifications now play your chosen tone and report errors clearly. Push notifications also fixed on
recent iOS — alerts were sometimes silently dropped, now arrive reliably.
• Polish. Fire-detail image no longer crops at the sides. Launch splash now matches the login screen. Sign Out moved into
the Settings tab.
3.8.4 15 May
FireHub gets a complete rebuild on top of the legacy FireHawk app — same account, same fires, faster everything.
NEW IN THIS RELEASE
• Native iOS app — faster scrolling, faster maps, smoother camera carousels
• Real-time push notifications when a fire is detected
• Custom alert tones — pick from four fire-themed sounds so FireHub pushes stand out
• Sign in with Google — one-tap sign in alongside the existing email/password flow
• "Open in Firehub" — jump from the app into the web dashboard already signed in, no second login
• Persistent fires cache — the list opens instantly with the last fires you saw, then refreshes in the background
• Bearing sight-lines on the camera map when multiple towers see the same fire
• Pilot view with live distance & bearing to a selected fire
• Brand-new dark UI throughout
If you previously used FireHawk and your account is already set up, sign in with the same credentials and you're good to go.
3.5.1 13 May
improvements in the speed of the loading data and bug fixes around the overview page on mobile
2.33.11 14/08/2024
Updates to the UI and bug fixes around push notifications
2.30.10 12/06/2024
Bug Fixes and display improvements on all devices
2.10.01 16/09/2023
Bug Fixes around the loading of the fire list and the weather data.
2.9.00 29/07/2023
New overview map added to the phone version of the app, mapping is now cached better locally for less data usage.
2.7.03 20/06/2023
• New fires arriving while FireHub is open now show a banner, play the alert sound and appear in the list straight away.
• Clearer when something goes wrong: screens that couldn't load now say so and offer Retry instead of showing an empty list or loading forever, and the Fires list shows when it was last updated.
• Deleting a FireFence zone, blocking or deleting a user, and re-aiming every camera now ask you to confirm first.
• Notification settings now show when alerts are switched off in iOS Settings, with a shortcut to turn them back on.
• Text now follows your iPhone's text size setting, colours are easier to read, buttons are easier to tap, and VoiceOver reads every control properly.
• You can swipe back from the edge of the screen everywhere.
• Performance and reliability improvements.
more Version 3.67.0 29 Oct
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