Kablamo launches Firestory: Australia's first AI-powered bushfire intelligence platform
Firestory is now live: a cloud-based AI platform that turns the limitless data surrounding a bushfire into a single source of decision-making intelligence for agencies on the ground.
Today Kablamo formally launches Firestory, a cloud-based data and AI platform built specifically for bushfire management in Australia.
Firestory is the product of years of embedded work with fire agencies. It started with a single insight: the people making life-and-death decisions during a fire event had too many systems, too many tabs, and not enough clarity. We set out to fix that.
What Firestory does
Firestory digitises the workflows of fire incident management. It connects data from dozens of sources (weather feeds, satellite imagery, ground sensors, historical records, agency databases) and presents it in a single interface calibrated for the roles that matter: incident controllers, fire behaviour analysts, operations controllers, and public liaison officers.
The platform provides:
- Real-time incident tracking across active fire zones
- Predictive modelling using CSIRO Spark and Phoenix RapidFire engines
- Workflow digitisation for processes that were largely paper-based
- Geospatial visualisation of complex, multi-source data in a human-readable form
- Aviation safety modules for coordinating aircraft over fire grounds
- Social intelligence for monitoring community impact and spread of information
Previously, after a fire event, producing an incident report required collecting masses of paperwork and individual recollections. With Firestory, it's an export button.
Built with and for firefighters
Kablamo's geospatial lead Andrew McDowell, who has led the engineering of Firestory since its earliest prototype, described the challenge:
"We've had a lot of geospatial challenges around how you integrate different types of data and visualise them so you're presenting complex data in a way that humans, with many different skills, can get insights from quickly. We've got historical data, observational data about what's happening right now, and forecasted data. The challenge is taking all those different types of data and presenting it in a way that just lets people do their jobs."
The platform has been developed in close collaboration with Australian fire agencies, with every feature validated against real operational requirements before being shipped.
What's next
Firestory is live and in active deployment. We're continuing to expand its predictive capabilities, integrate hyperspectral satellite imagery, and extend the platform to additional fire agencies across Australia and internationally.
For agencies interested in Firestory, contact firestory@kablamo.com.au.