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Council backs fire-department upgrades: Firecore AI subscription and SCBA purchases
Summary
The council approved a five-year Firecore AI subscription for vegetation monitoring (up to 500 parcels) and authorized up to $150,000 to purchase new MSA SCBA units and associated bottles/facepieces to replace aging equipment; one councilmember opposed the SCBA spending level.
La Habra Heights' fire leadership asked the council to modernize equipment and adopt technology to better manage wildfire risk. The council voted to enter a five-year subscription service with Firecore AI for satellite and drone-based vegetation analysis targeted to up to 500 parcels in the city's highest-risk areas, at $13,600 annually; staff added a contract edit to prevent sharing resident data with outside parties ("including but not limited to…
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