Switch to Street View to place apparatus, crews, and conditions from the curb — the same view the first-arriving officer had, anchored to real coordinates.
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Switch to Street View to size up a call from ground level — the view the first-arriving officer actually had, not the satellite view above it.
Click Street in the view switcher above the map. Its full name, "Street View," shows in the tooltip and to screen readers. The panorama loads at the incident address.
Click 2D Map, 3D Scene, or Aerial in the same switcher to leave it. Everything you placed stays exactly where you put it — switching views never touches the incident record, only which view of it you're looking at.
Click the ground to place apparatus, crews, hydrants, and map markers, the same way you would on the overhead map. Click the building itself, at an opening or a side, to paint a fire or smoke condition.
Every placement writes to the same incident record the overhead map reads — there is no separate Street View copy to keep in sync. Place a crew from the curb and it shows up on the map immediately, and a unit placed on the map shows up in the panorama the next time you look.
Pan or zoom the panorama and your markers track with it, because they're anchored to real ground coordinates, not to a fixed spot on the screen.
A curb-level click on the ground can't pin a coordinate as tightly as a top-down click can. GPS puts the ground point within roughly five feet, and the app draws that as a halo around the marker rather than hiding it — placement toasts say so too, for example "Engine placed (~5 ft accuracy)." A condition painted on a window or a side skips the halo: it's pinned to that opening, not to a fuzzy ground point.
Some addresses have no Street View photography. The panel tells you so directly: "No Street View at this location," with instructions to pan the aerial map to a nearby road and try again. A connection failure shows different wording and leaves your map markers and aerial view working normally — only the panorama itself is affected.
This view answers "what could I see from where I stopped," which is a different question from "what was actually there." Use it for size-up training — what a first-arriving officer's eyes actually had — not as a substitute for the building's real geometry, which lives in the floor plan and the aerial view.