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Okanagan woman answers calls for help, builds livestock evacuation app amid wildfires
Meagan Bucar’s Livestock Coordination Network sends SOS alerts to haulers within 75 kilometres and includes fire maps, permits and access notes.
- Coldstream realtor Meagan Bucar developed the Livestock Coordination Network app following chaotic livestock evacuations during the Bradley Creek and Bald Range wildfires in the Okanagan this August.
- During rescue operations, Bucar encountered significant inefficiency when multiple trucks arrived to help the same animals while others went unassisted, prompting her to conceive a centralized coordination system.
- The app integrates a live fire map from the Wildfire Service, allowing users to pin locations and receive SOS alerts; it notifies haulers within 75 kilometres when matching transport requests activate.
- Kelowna-Based Sixth Summit built the platform at no cost, and Bucar is awaiting approval from Apple and Google Play to officially launch the free service across B.C.
- Designed for hobby animal owners lacking emergency preparedness resources, the platform allows users to create profiles as haulers or boarding hosts and complements existing cattle-focused programs like Premise.
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