FirstWave
Predictive EMS staging dashboard. Forecasts where 911 calls will cluster and pre-positions idle ambulances.
Frontend lead (React + Mapbox dashboard, FastAPI integration) · 2026 · GT Hacklytics · Hackathon team
Demo walkthrough coming soon
Why I built it
draftNYC EMS takes over 1.5 million calls a year. In the worst boroughs the average response runs past the 8-minute mark where cardiac-arrest survival drops fast. The problem is placement rather than the number of ambulances, and demand is predictable enough to stage for. FirstWave forecasts where calls will cluster over the next hour and shows dispatchers where to pre-position idle units before they come in. I led the frontend: the React and Mapbox dashboard that makes the forecast legible, and the FastAPI integration behind it, not the ML forecasting pipeline itself.
Results
- Within 8-min window
- 64.7% → 86.0%
- Bronx coverage
- 48.2% → 96.7%
Stack
- React
- Mapbox
- FastAPI
- Python