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Knight Division TacticalWho live-streams wildfire community meetings?
Media Production for Community Meetings
Yes.
KDT provides media production services for wildfire incidents: an operator crew with broadcast cameras, a live-stream switcher, audio, displays and its own internet, to run in-person, virtual and hybrid community meetings and IMT briefings, live-stream them to several platforms at once and edit video updates.
Typical configuration
- Staff (base)
- Operators able to function in all roles
- Cameras
- 2–3 broadcast-quality zoom cameras, 60+ min recording, live-stream capable, on fluid-head tripods
- Switching
- Live-stream switcher for picture-in-picture and close-ups (e.g. Blackmagic ATEM)
- Editing
- On-site video/audio editing (e.g. Adobe Premiere/Audition, Final Cut, Logic Pro, DaVinci Resolve)
- Audio
- 2+ wireless handheld and 2+ lavalier mics, wired boom mic, 2+ amplified PA speakers, audio console, USB-C interface
- Display
- 2 × 65-inch monitors, 2 high-resolution projectors with screens
- Internet
- Contractor-provided, 10+ Mbps up / 20+ Mbps down during meetings
- Method of hire
- Daily rate, internet included
When a fire threatens a community, the incident management team holds community meetings, and more and more of them are hybrid: a room full of residents, presenters in front of a map, an ASL interpreter, virtual presenters, and many more people watching online. Running that well is a broadcast job. Media production services do it, along with recording and editing the team's video updates and briefings.
KDT rents it at a daily rate that includes our own internet, and the base package covers the whole job: operators who can work every role and know ICS; in-person, virtual and hybrid meetings for large audiences; dedicated Microsoft Teams and Zoom accounts plus social media streaming, to several platforms at the same time; a pinned or picture-in-picture ASL interpreter for the whole meeting; real-time lower-third graphics; filtering of hackers and spam; set-up an hour or more before community meetings; and redundancy so a full internet outage switches to a standby graphic and the meeting is still recorded.
All data and products stay under the direction of the Planning Section Chief, stay on the incident, and sensitive data is wiped before demob. KDT can also hand the setup from one IMT to the next with no break for the audience.
Available as
- Media Production Service – Base package
- Auxiliary package (operator, camera, mic and PA) for a second meeting
- Additional personnel as ordered by the IMT
- Relocation of the whole setup to a new venue
What's included
- Operators and all base-package equipment
- Contractor internet for the production
- Meeting invites, admitting virtual attendees and integrating ASL interpreters, captioners and remote presenters
- Recording of each meeting as a backup
- Cables, cable covers, power strips and surge protection
Where it's used
- Wildfire community meetings, in person, virtual and hybrid
- Morning and evening operational briefings
- Command and General Staff, cooperator and planning meetings
- Recorded and edited video updates for the public
Questions, answered.
Who live-streams wildfire community meetings?
Incident management teams often hire a media production service. KDT provides the crew and equipment to run the meeting in the room and stream it to Teams, Zoom, Facebook and YouTube at the same time.
Can you show an ASL interpreter during the whole meeting?
Yes. The setup keeps an ASL interpreter on screen in a pinned or picture-in-picture layout for the full meeting, whether the interpreter is in the room or remote.
What does the incident have to provide?
Just the meeting space and one clean power connection, plus folding tables and chairs if the setup needs them. Everything else, including internet, comes with the service.
What happens if the internet goes down mid-meeting?
The setup has redundancy: it switches to a standby graphic during a full outage and records the meeting so it can be posted afterward.
Need it on your incident? Say the word.
Add it to your request with anything else you need, then send it all at once. We'll come back with what we can put where, and when.