State guide

QLD emergency data: sources and coverage

Queensland publishes from its dispatch system rather than a fire-only feed, so structure fires, rescues, road crashes and hazmat all arrive through the same channel as bushfires.

Overview

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) publishes the primary feed through ESCAD, the Emergency Services Computer Aided Dispatch system. It covers all incident types including structure fires, rescues, motor vehicle accidents, hazmat and bushfires. A second feed carries bushfire-specific alerts, and a third carries storm, flood and cyclone warnings as CAP-AU.

Available feeds

Feed	Format	Update	Coverage
QLD ESCAD Incidents	ArcGIS REST	60 sec	All incident types
QLD Bushfire Alerts	JSON	5 min	Bushfire-specific alerts
QLD EMQ Warnings	CAP-AU	5 min	Storm, flood and cyclone warnings. Legitimately empty outside storm season

Integration notes

Agencies: QFD (all incidents via ESCAD), QFD-WARN (bushfire alerts), EMQ (storm, flood and cyclone warnings).
Timestamps: Compact UTC format (YYYYMMDDHHmmss, for example "20260406040300"). Unusual among Australian feeds and requires custom parsing.
Auth: All three feeds are public. No authentication required.
Strength: ESCAD covers all incident types in one feed, not just bushfires, so a single integration returns a broad picture of the state.