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A burning house at night: the turntable ladder raised, two fire engines and a smaller support vehicle with headlights on the road, crews with hose lines at the house

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Alert. Respond. Take command.

A firefighting game where you run the dispatch centre – and command the scene yourself. On a real map, with real fire stations and real hydrants. It starts in the district of Freising, with the whole of Germany and beyond to follow.

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In development, no release date yet. I'll announce playtests on Discord and in the forum first.

ALARM B 3 House fire · District of Freising

Alert vehicles, dismount on scene and attack with the hose.

Dispatcher and incident commander in one

Emergency calls come in at real addresses, and you alert units from real stations. Then you don't just send trucks – you run the incident until the last hose is rolled up again.

Real map, real data

The in-game overview map of the district of Freising, with every fire station as a red dot

The entire district of Freising built from OpenStreetMap and the Bavarian terrain model: every fire station, every mapped hydrant, the brigades' real vehicles. More districts will follow.

  • 83 fire stations
  • 3,716 hydrants
  • 130+ vehicles

A whole district in miniature

  • Blue hour: hose teams at a burning barn
  • Daytime: freeing a trapped driver after a crash
  • Responding at night
  • Golden hour: a field fire at the edge of the village
  • Freising's old town, built from real building footprints
  • Fields and streams along the river Isar

At the station

These four vehicles already stand in the hall with their own models. These are their models from the game: turn them, switch on the blue lights and give them a status the way they would over the radio.

Fleet

HLF 20

Rescue fire engine (Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug)

Firefighting and technical rescue in one: water on board, two breathing-apparatus teams and the rescue tools for a road accident.

Modelled on
MAN TGM with a Ziegler body
Water tank
1,600 litres

On board

  • H Hose
  • T Hydraulic cutter
  • Z Chainsaw
  • O Submersible pump
  • V Supply line
  • R Portable ladder
  • X Breathing apparatus
  • Y Thermal camera
  • Ö Fan

Set status (FMS)

2 · Available at the station

This is how vehicles report to the dispatch centre: at the push of a button on the radio status system.

Fact sheet

What engine8 is today, where it runs and what comes next. Honestly, without a date.

Platform
  • macOS
  • Windows
  • Linux

Modes

  • Solo
  • LAN
  • online
Map
District of Freising
Germany and beyond to follow
Organisations
  • Fire brigadeIn the game
  • Rescue servicePlanned
  • PolicePlanned
  • THWPlanned
Situation report · Development

In development, no date yet

Already in 5

  • The district of Freising from OpenStreetMap and the terrain model
  • Real stations, hydrants and fleets
  • Fire and water, hose lays, tanker shuttles
  • Co-op solo, over LAN and online
  • Summi, the bug-report drone

In progress 1

  • Many new calls with real alarm keywords

Next 4

  • Calls reported wrongly, and reconnaissance
  • Fires that spread with the wind
  • A living world with an emergency lane
  • Quicker orders on scene

Later 3

  • Rescue service, police and THW
  • A persistent world around the clock
  • A companion app for on the go

Stay in the loop

What's being built lands in the devlog. Playtests are announced on Discord first.

Devlog

All posts since 2015 

Coming full circle

The browser game becomes a true firefighting game: dispatch and incident command in one, on a real map, with fire, water and co-op. Why I'm going back to the roots – and what I'm taking with me.

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I'm André, a trained industrial firefighter, and I'm building engine8 on my own. If you want a say, this is where you get alerted.