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PublicSafetyAPI for VS Code

dev.publicsafetyapi/publicsafetyapi-mcp

US police, fire, EMS and hospital locations near any address, from federal HIFLD data

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install PublicSafetyAPI in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "publicsafetyapi-key",
      "description": "PUBLICSAFETYAPI_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "publicsafetyapi-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "publicsafetyapi-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PUBLICSAFETYAPI_KEY": "${input:publicsafetyapi-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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