Friday, November 7, 2008

CAL FIRE - SCU - Website foundation poured

New California Fire department website under construction.
I discovered a new CAL FIRE website specifically designed for the Santa Clara Unit - This site is obviously still under construction so watch out for the wet paint!
http://www.calfirescu.org
Great new stuff:
The site is new but already has articles and features found nowhere else.
  • Chief John Ellis - SCU 1600 - Homepage
  • The site has a great Google map of all SCU Unit locations: Link
  • The Cal Fire Santa Clara unit operates 12 state fire stations.
  • A real fun read is the history of this great CAL FIRE unit. - Link





Picture: 1944 federal transport carrying a 1944 DT bulldozer. Acquired in 1947 and 1948 it was assigned to the Santa Clara Unit.







Picture: A 1930 Ford Model A. Taken at the old Santa Clara Ranger Unit Headquarters Station at Alma.

Suggestions: This site is going to be great but I take the liberty to make a few suggestions:
  1. Active incident page such used by Riverside CAL FIRE - RRU - Link
  2. RSS Feed - For News, press releases, incidents - (Make my job easier...)
  3. Remove the ca.gov logo it is just confusing to have on a .org site
  4. Base Design on RRU site - Home page does not confuse readers.
  5. More Pictures of SCU employess such as the great ECC dispatcher "Chopper" at work, and 1613:"Wolf", 1616: "Van Wormer" and of course 1630 : "The Bird" and so on.
  6. Less links redirecting to CAL FIRE Home page.
  7. Update much more often than Inciweb or Cal Fire Home page, note: the Chiefs weekly memo has not been updated since early September.
  8. A link to CAL FIRE NEWS! or a widget installed(Ok I know selfish request...)
Lets give them some hits - This site had only 200 vistors as of Noon today, lets inspire the SCU web Guru to keep working - Hit this link- http://www.calfirescu.org/

1 comment:

  1. hehe.. I was visitor number 231 at 7:30pm.. Very bare boned so far...

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