**Artifact** from Bead: Maria Fire Edit · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/1f914c9d-1d55-4dcc-9ba5-1d0d921e0502/2026-07-06/artifacts/adams-fire-narration-transcript.md) · session 2026-07-06 · discussion: Talk: Maria Fire Edit
> **Provenance:** auto-captions pulled 2026-07-06 via yt-dlp from > [youtu.be/lP7-UhZQ4IY](https://youtu.be/lP7-UhZQ4IY) ("Adams Fire 2020 - Wildland Fire Progression > Monitoring and Resource Tracking w/ Realtime.Earth", 3:30). Timestamped source: > [adams-fire-narration.en.vtt](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/1f914c9d-1d55-4dcc-9ba5-1d0d921e0502/2026-07-06/artifacts/adams-fire-narration.en.vtt). > Caption spellings lightly corrected in brackets where the ASR garbled proper nouns > ("atoms fire" → Adams Fire, "isocron's" → isochrones, "ford sage" → Fort Sage). > Local video: [guerin.acequia.io/realtime-earth/videos/adams-fire.mp4](https://guerin.acequia.io/realtime-earth/videos/adams-fire.mp4) > · shortlink [go.simtable.com/adams-fire](https://go.simtable.com/adams-fire).
In this video we demonstrate our ability to monitor wildland fire progression and track wildland fire resources on incident using our platform Realtime.Earth. The [Adams] Fire broke out on the evening of July 26, 2020, roughly 30 miles north of Reno, Nevada, on the eastern edge of the Plumas National Forest. Two alertwildfire.org cameras captured the incident unfolding, including Constantia from the east and Fort Sage from the north. On our platform Realtime.Earth we have calibrated these alertwildfire.org cameras. Calibration enables us to increase the intelligence capabilities of the imagery by associating pixels with latitude longitude coordinates. This association allows us to generate GIS directly from the source imagery. Using the calibrated alertwildfire.org cameras in our system we're able to record the progression of the fire. [Isochrones] of the fire perimeter are annotated in the imagery at one hour intervals. The GIS rendered from these annotations can then be used to analyze the progression of the fire. Rewinding to the start of the incident, we begin playback of the progression of the fire approximately two hours after the fire was identified. Shifts in the weather conditions started pushing the fire north. [Music] To stop the spread towards the north, a dozer is deployed along this ridgeline. With fire activity reducing on the eastern flank, crews are deployed to cut hand line. With the calibrated cameras in Realtime.Earth we can monitor crew resources as they reinforce the line. [Music] Going back to the camera we can see a dozer working on the fuel break previously drawn on the map. With the calibrated alertwildfire.org cameras we can monitor the progression of the dozer from multiple perspectives. From the [Fort Sage] camera view we can monitor the progression of the dozer, the flame front, and traffic on the highway. We took a series of still shots from the camera and collapsed them into a single frame to visualize the path of the dozer. We note the alignment between the traffic in the imagery and the highway on the map. [Music] Using the calibrated alertwildfire.org cameras in our system we're able to monitor the progression of the fire and [track] resources throughout the night. [Music] Our goal with Realtime.Earth is to leverage footage capturing a wildland fire incident to the fullest degree, to both garner intelligence and foster firefighter safety, directly from imagery.