Alert SA 2.1.5

Reviews

3 ★, on 2021-01-25
I wish they would stop making updates that remove features. Last year when there was a major fire, the mapped burn zones would show up, like they do in the website, but for some reason not now... only the polygons showing.. its a handy thing to see how far a fire is actually spreading and which direction. Don't want to have to switch back and forth between app and web when clearly its using the same info.

5 ★, on 2021-01-25
Very handy app, but when pressing for more information on an incident the CFS incident report opens as a desktop format page that requires a lot of horizontal and vertical scrolling to read properly on a mobile device. It would be more user friendly if this was fixed to display properly for Android devices screen size.

2 ★, on 2021-01-25
It is frustrating that this app doesn't show the burnt area like the CFS website. Instead you just see an enormous polygon vaguely associated with various generic and confusing icons. To get a sufficiently detailed spatial understanding of the fire I typically find myself opening up my laptop to view the CFS website. Also the alerts seem very 'spammy'. I don't want alerts when an incident severity is downgraded!

3 ★, on 2021-02-01
I keep getting alerts telling me the same things. The fire is contained. Then i get an alert telling me there is another fire in the cherry gardens area as of 1/2/21. When i look into it further there is no fire. Its the same fires contained. Do I take the app seriously. its like a crying wolf scenario. As a person who is new to living in a bush fire threat zone its hard to take it seriously when it either tells me something we already know twice a day every day after the fact then tells me there is a new threat when there is not??

3 ★, on 2021-02-09
Very basic app, doesn't show a lot of information. The CFS website is much better, but not as mobile-friendly.

1 ★, on 2020-11-16
One year later, still beed different colour marker for 'going' VS 'complete' incidents. Very difficult to assess risk on busy fire days without this distinction. Link to 'more information' for a given fire just links to the CFS page, not more information about the specific fire. If getting an alert and opening it, going 'back' closes the app instead of taking you to the map so you can assess risk.