Colorado Center of Excellence

The DFPC's Center of Excellence is celebrating our 5000th COTAK user today! Thank you to our public safety partners for trusting us "when where matters". @COStateFire

The Center of Excellence recently participated in a collaborative effort with @NASAAmes and the @forestservice to use high-altitude balloons to improve real-time communications among firefighters battling wildland fires. Learn more below ⬇️

Colorado recently participated in the FireTech Innovation Roundtable discussion at the @WhiteHouse to share how the State of Colorado is moving the needle by developing innovative approaches to wildfire operations. 🇺🇸🔥 Read the full story at cofiretech.org.

INTRODUCING COTAK📱 #COTAK offers Colorado public safety agencies a free of charge solution that provides up-to-the-second location information of emergency responders, improving team coordination, situational awareness, and safety. 🚨 Learn more at cotak.gov

We are hiring: Instructional Media Specialist Visit bit.ly/40BFete to apply!

State Fire Agency To Hold Events at Two Colorado Universities in Honor of Community Risk Reduction Week 2023: @COStateFire & its partners at @adamsstate & @ColoradoMesaU are taking part in Community Risk Reduction Week @crrweek Read more at bit.ly/3ZRC5Fv

NPS-DDP.org has announced their 2022 Award Winners. In the category of departments or organizations that have donated the most hardware in support of public safety, NPS-DDP presented the award to @cofiretech Read more at bit.ly/3luY99J

In this video, we got to sit down with the NPSDDP to talk about the UAS we donated and the future of UAS in public safety- thank you NPSDDP! Learn more about their program at nps-ddp.org

Donating 5 UAS to the the National Public Safety Drone Donation Program is one way we accomplish our mission. Watch the video at bit.ly/3GDaq4w

A big thanks to our partners @COStateFire @CORiverFire & @GarfieldCounty @Garco911 Learn more at cofiretech.org #cofire

With our partners, we had the opportunity to test the effectiveness of a fire suppressant called FS-01 during a prescribed burn! Two piles were burned- brush and small juniper trees that are specifically constructed to mimic the natural fuel beds found on the Western Slope of CO.

“To improve the safety & effectiveness of first responders during tactical operations the CoE has worked to facilitate adoption of TAK…it is a geospatial mapping engine, that facilitates tactical situational awareness…”

Our UAS Program Manager talks TAK: Team Awareness Kit “TAK provides up-to-the-second location tracking and mapping capabilities to firefighters, as well as cutting edge connectivity solutions and integrations of sensors and cameras for use by firefighters.”

Our UAS Program Manager and Deputy Director present at the 2022 Fire Leadership Challenge! @COStateFire 🔥

We are hiring for a Chief of Staff for our Division, join the DFPC team and apply at dfpc.colorado.gov/careers Deadline: 10/24/2022 #cofire

We recently entered into a 5-year, $1.6 million agreement with the @forestservice to develop innovative technologies for wildland fire management... Read the full release at bit.ly/3Vkbm2S #cofire #dfpcfire @COStateFire

We are hiring! Join our team, apply today at dfpc.colorado.gov/careers #cofire

One of DFPCs Type 1 Helicopters HT-0CU returning to their dip site on the #HalliganFire in Central Larimer County a few days ago. Learn more about the #HalliganFire at @LarimerSheriff #cofire

& help their firefighters respond. Several PTZ cameras are being piloted by the CoE to assist incident managers with monitoring wildland fires, floods, and other natural disasters. #cofire #publicsafety

Recently, we had an opportunity to put one of our pan-tilt zoom (PTZ) cameras to work! 🎥 After a single tree fire 🔥 near Harvey Gap Reservoir in Garfield County was reported to @CORiverFire via 911, fire chiefs at CRFR used the PTZ camera to capture information on the fire