Yeah, jnpatel (Jay's) app http://www.wildfireapp.io/ does look cool. I wonder how they get the data for that.

I got curious too; in the Berkeleyside article about it, they say "right now, posts come from a combination of community users, Wildfire staffers and local news partners, including Berkeleyside. To verify information, and decide whether or not to push out an alert to the community, the team checks posts against what is released by authorities and the local media, too."