first_responder_facilities

Where B.C. first responder facilities are, from the province's open data, read live from DataBC: fire halls, police detachments and stations, ambulance stations and coast guard stations (1,055 listings). Filter by group (FIRE, POLICE, AMBULANCE, COASTGUARD), facility type, name, locality, or distance from a point (lat, lon, radius_km). Returns name, type, address and coordinates. It shows where a facility is, not whether it is staffed, open, or how fast it can respond, and it has no phone numbers. In an emergency call 911.

Cost: 5 units of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• group (FIRE, POLICE, AMBULANCE, COASTGUARD, optional)
• facility_type (HALL, STATION, DETACHMENT, COMMUNITYSTN, POLICESTN, OCC, HIGHWAYPATROL, AIREVAC, FIRSTNATIONS, DISPATCH, SEASONAL, COORDINATION, optional)
• name (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• locality (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• lat (number, optional): min 47.5, max 61
• lon (number, optional): min -140, max -113
• radius_km (number, optional): min 0.5, max 50
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 50, default 20

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/first_responder_facilities \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool first_responder_facilities with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"first_responder_facilities","arguments":{}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.