These Entrepreneurs Want to Use Robotics to Fight Wildfires
One company plans to use machinery to burn the ground on purpose. Another aims to put fires out using autonomous helicopters.
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Incoming rain brings mudslides threat to burn zones
Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.
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Photos: Rancho Bernardo fire
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Crews quickly douse Rancho Bernardo fire that led hundreds to flee homes
CalFire engineer Nima Valleiy, from CalFire San Diego Crew 1, directs a group of firefighters as they work to make a fire break in an effort to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del ...
Al Jazeera English23d
Turkiye arrests nine amid anger over deadly ski resort hotel fire
Turkiye has arrested nine people in connection with Tuesday’s fire at a ski resort hotel that killed 76 people. The arrests, announced by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya on Wednesday, included ...
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Newsom Cut Some Fire Prevention Funding Before 2025 LA Wildfires, But It's Complicated
"These were reductions to one-time augmentations, not reductions to CalFire's [California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection] ongoing base programs and funding," Rachel Ehlers, analyst for ...
KELOLAND News23d
Prince Harry greets SD firefighters in CA
Photos from the SDDPS Facebook page Photos from the SDDPS Facebook page He also talked with CalFire personnel. SD firefighters were staged with CalFire in preparation for initial attack on any ...
Al Jazeera English23d
Hotel fire at Turkiye ski resort kills at least 76 people
A hotel fire in a ski resort in northwestern Turkiye has killed at least 76 people and injured dozens of others, officials said. The blaze broke out overnight in the restaurant of the hotel in ...
The Desert Sun24d
San Diego County fires: Lilac Fire, one of several blazes that began Tuesday, at 80 acres
Here’s an overview of the fires in San Diego County as of Tuesday morning. Cal Fire and San Diego County Fire said that they were on scene at a vegetation fire that was approximately five acres ...
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Fire at Turkish ski resort kills at least 66 people, injures 51 more: Officials
At least 66 people were killed, and 51 people were injured when a fire spread through a Turkish ski resort, according to Reuters citing local officials. The fire broke out at the Kartal Hotel in ...
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Cal Fire helps residents prepare for the worst with a new program to retrofit homes
Cal Fire says in the case of one Malibu home it was thanks to home hardening, and now they’re launching a pilot program to do the same here in San Diego County. When a wildfire tears through a ...