Custer County, South Dakota
Pulaski
Built for the people who run toward the fire.
What is Pulaski?
Pulaski is the civic intelligence OS for Custer County. Emergency evacuation alerts are the core. Residents register an address, indicate livestock or special needs, and receive a push when the sheriff draws a radius around the fire. They tap Staying or Going. The sheriff sees live status on the map.
Built for the Custer County Sheriff's Office. Population 2,043 in town, 8,318 in the county. When wildfires threatened, the department had no way to track who was out, who was still in, and who needed a ride. There was no budget for one.
The sheriff called the only guy in town he thought might know a developer. He called a tour guide.
The builder
Luke Alvarez is a NOLS Wilderness First Responder, National Cave Rescue Commission operator (NSS-CRO), and SAR team leader for Custer County Search and Rescue. He led emergency coordination during the Custer wildfire. He had never written a line of code before last winter.
He sat in his garage every morning and built Pulaski with Claude Code and YouTube. The same hands that run a chainsaw on a fire line wrote the code that tracks who gets out alive.
Built for the people who run toward the fire. Named after the man who wouldn't let them run away.
Bring Pulaski to your county
Emergency evacuation tracking for the communities that need it most. Drop your email and we'll reach out.
Or email directly: luke@blackhillsconsortium.org