AI Fire Guy Blog
Plain-language articles about safe adoption, governance, department workflows, and the decisions chiefs and officers face as AI moves into public safety.
The collection
These three articles are the current AI Fire Guy collection. They are presented here in the AI Fire Guy design so the blog is useful even when an external publishing platform is unavailable.
A Seattle Times investigation raises a hard question for every department: what happens when AI enters a public-safety workflow before policy, transparency, and outcome measurement are ready?
Read the collection entry →Three developments outside the fire service point to practical questions about vendors, enterprise tools, pricing, accountability, and the choices departments make next.
Read the collection entry →A plain-language guide to what AI can help with today, what it cannot do, and where a department can begin with low-risk, high-value work.
Read the collection entry →Collection entries
A Seattle Times investigation published June 14 should be required reading for every fire chief in this country. The article examines Seattle Fire's use of AI-assisted medical-call triage, the governance questions raised by that use, the importance of transparency, and why departments need policy and measurement before technology moves into a public-safety workflow.
Read the full article →Three stories from the technology and business world become fire-service leadership questions: how vendor economics can change, how enterprise AI affects departments, and what chiefs should ask before adopting tools. The article connects those developments to procurement, accountability, practical adoption, and the responsibility to keep department judgment at the center.
Read the full article →AI tools can help with incident report drafting, training scenario generation, resource allocation analysis, and community risk assessment. They cannot replace human judgment in emergency situations, make staffing decisions, conduct investigations, or replace the experience of a seasoned officer. The practical starting point is low-risk, high-value work such as report-writing assistance and training-material development.
Read the full article →On-domain guides
These new guides live on aifireguy.com so fire-service leaders can find stable, internally linked answers without relying on an external publishing platform.
Where to begin with low-risk, reviewable work in meetings, training, policy, communications, and non-sensitive report cleanup.
Read the guide →The building blocks of a practical policy: approved use, restricted information, human review, vendors, records, training, and accountability.
Read the guide →A privacy-first framework for classifying information, minimizing exposure, choosing approved tools, and keeping leaders accountable.
Read the guide →