(Bloomberg) -- Cody Chiverton has spent the past decade lighting fires. As a former firefighter with the US Forest Service, he participated in dozens of...
-- Cody Chiverton has spent the past decade lighting fires. As a former firefighter with the US Forest Service, he participated in dozens of prescribed burns across the American West, in which fire-prevention teams would carry drip torches to ignite dry vegetation, leaving flames and smoke in their wake.How the Cortiços of São Paulo Helped Shelter South America’s Largest City
“This is a way that we can start doing more prescribed fire to clean up our landscapes and make them more resilient,” he says. BurnBot is part of a nascent but fast-growing “fire tech” sector that’s focused on preventing, detecting and suppressing wildfires. San Francisco-based Pano AI uses artificial intelligence-enabled cameras to spot fires earlier, while Santa Monica, California-based Rain makes autonomous helicopters to target blazes from above and France’s Shark Robotics builds firefighting robots for the frontlines.
That feature has already captured the interest of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, California’s largest utility, which typically avoids prescribed burns near its 18,500 miles of transmission lines because the smoke is a safety hazard. The utility greenlit a demo of BurnBot’s technology last year. Kevin Johnson, an analyst who vets innovative wildfire solutions for PG&E, says he “couldn’t see the smoke or smell the smoke.
Then there’s the challenge of getting more fire authorities on board. In an industry whose tactics rarely evolve, Lakhina says it can be “very difficult to introduce new approaches.” Trump vs Harris live: Trump wildly claims he’d win California ‘if Jesus came down’ in raving Dr Phil interview
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