Firefighters are training a robot to scan the horizon for fires. It turns out a lot of things look like smoke.
Tag: Cal Fire
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We Suffer Too Many Fools Who Start Wildfires
With so much smoke polluting the air so early in the fire season, we should finally stop thinking of wildfires as out of our control.
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Fairview Fire Rages in Southern California, As Storm Threatens to Bring Floods
A storm threatens to bring heavy rain and strong winds to the state’s largest wildfire, creating a recipe for a compound disaster in Southern California.
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Wildfires Could Be Treated as a Form Of Maintenance, Like Flu Shots
Climate change hasn’t made all prescribed burns unsafe, but more care needs to be taken in starting them, and even then, risk cannot be eliminated entirely.