Team: 10
School: Multi Schools-CCP/CMS
Area of Science: Behavioral And Social Sciences
Proposal: School name: Jackson Middle School
Project title: Fire Department Wait Times
Team members: Ayvree Urrea
Kiara Onomoto
Sponsor teachers: Karen Glennon
Project mentors: Patty Meyers
Problem:
The problem is that fire departments take to long to get to their destination once they are called. On average, it takes around 5 minutes for the fireman to arrive at the scene. This leaves time for fires to get bigger and become more of a danger to the people nearby. Fires affect many people and those extra few minutes can make a big difference as fires can escalate rapidly.
Expected Results:
We expect to figure out a much quicker way for fireman to get to their destination, whether this means switching the locations of fire departments or figuring out a better route. We plan to use The Albuquerque Fire Department as a resource to see what data they have and if wait times can be minimized. It is expected that if we use nodes in our programming to figure out the shortest route from one place to another. This will give us an idea of how fireman can limit their response time, making it more precise.
Plan Of Action:
Our plan of action is to make two different simulations of a specific neighborhood in the Albuquerque area and surrounding fire departments. The first simulation will show how the emergency systems will react normally and their targeted spots. The second program will show what the outcome would be if we were to change the locations of that department. In our program we want to use nodes to be our “houses/neighborhood†and see what the fastest route is and if it is better than normal. We will base our code on the networking theory and traveling salesman problem which finds the shortest possible distance or lines to the destination.
Team Members:
Sponsoring Teacher: Karen Glennon