Custer County, South Dakota
Pulaski
Built for the people who run toward the fire.
What is Pulaski?
Pulaski is built to help rural counties get the right people out ahead of wildfire, evacuation intelligence for the agencies on the front line. Residents register an address, indicate livestock or special needs, and receive a push when a radius evacuation is ordered. They tap Staying or Going. Command sees live status on the map.
Built from a written first-responder and sheriff's-office spec in Custer County. Designed for county emergency-manager and sheriff/fire workflows. Population 2,043 in town, 8,318 in the county — when wildfires threatened, there was no way to track who was out, who was still in, and who needed a ride.
A Custer County Sheriff's Office sergeant reached out about the gap. Pulaski started as the answer — and is being built to scale to any rural county or fire district.
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/Quarry wildfire.
Built rapidly with AI-native tooling from a rural public-safety workflow gap observed in the field. The same hands that run a chainsaw on a fire line built the software 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.
Built for the counties that need it most
If your county or fire district needs this, reach out. We're building Pulaski as fast as the need demands, and looking for partners and support to bring it to the communities that need it.
Or email directly: luke@pulaski.app