Hriday Kemburu

One of the app’s co-founders, Hriday Kemburu, launched Wildfire as a way to keep college students informed and safe, according to Wildfire’s website. Since 2016, the Wildfire app has notified students at UC Berkeley and many other colleges of campus safety issues and emergencies, the website adds.

UC Berkeley’s startup ecosystem, which has helped launch hundreds of companies, is a network of startup incubators, accelerators, investors and classes.

People looking for a new place to party on Taco Tuesday will be thrilled with the new alcohol and taco-serving restaurant on Durant Avenue — Berkeley’s very own Taco Bell Cantina.

During the past several weeks in Berkeley, six robberies, a shooting and two sexual assaults have occurred, prompting concern among students and community members as well as increased use of the safety app Wildfire.

In light of an uptick in violent crime in the city, UCPD announced Wednesday the campus’s adoption of Nixle, a tool that alerts users about threats to safety in their area.

On Feb. 15, four UC Berkeley seniors launched Wildfire, a smartphone application that posts user-generated crime PSAs.