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How technology is helping prevent wildfires from spreading
Microsoft· 2026-03-12 16:02
These fires just devastate people, devastate communities. If we can prevent this anxiety, and this fear, and deep-rooted, just concern from people that have gone through this, that's a success. First priority is life.And the- the more that I can do to engage in technology that helps protect my communities and protect my firefighters, that- those are no-brainers. That's Deputy Fire Chief Zachary Wells and Doctor Neal Driscoll, a professor at the University of California San Diego. Together, they are two of t ...
New drone technology helps fight fires
NBC News· 2025-08-21 01:54
It's another summer of scorching temperatures. More than 870,000 acres burning across 10 states. From California to Wyoming, scenes like this, narrow vertical funnels of smoke rising quickly from the fire.While on the front lines of California's Gford fire, high-tech drones have been doing their own whirling in the sky, looking for hot spots. Back to center. Coming up.When there there's a heat on the ground or somewhere else, the camera will uh flash pretty brightly and then we'll have a temperature gauge t ...