{"id":6659,"date":"2018-11-21T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microdium.net\/public\/wildfire-camera-system-provides-a-small-measure-of-good-news-in-california\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:11:05","slug":"wildfire-camera-system-provides-a-small-measure-of-good-news-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2018\/11\/21\/wildfire-camera-system-provides-a-small-measure-of-good-news-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire Camera System Provides a Small Measure of Good News in California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As California grapples with increasingly deadly wildfires with seemingly few real solutions, one small but effective way of saving communities is getting more attention and traction: deploying a network of infrared cameras on mountaintops and other high hazard areas.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0AlertWildfire network<\/a>, consisting of some 80 cameras already dispersed among California forests, has already proven its worth on several occasions. As recently as last week in San Diego County, cameras caught two fire start-ups and allowed fire personnel to put them down with the appropriate amount of manpower.<\/p>\n

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Last December, cameras helped keep the Lilac Fire under 5,000 acres by allowing fire personnel to make key decisions early, before the fire got out of hand.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe likelihood of pinning down that fire without a massive response was low,\u201d said Graham Kent, director of the Nevada Seismological Lab in Reno, Nev., and a chief architect of the AlertWildfire camera network. \u201cIn that case, it could have been the difference between a billion dollars or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/em\/preparedness\/Wildfire-Camera-System-Provides-a-Small-Measure-of-Good-News-in-California-.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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As California grapples with increasingly deadly wildfires with seemingly few real solutions, one small but effective way of saving communities is getting more attention and traction: deploying a network of infrared cameras on mountaintops and other high hazard areas. The\u00a0AlertWildfire network, consisting of some 80 cameras already dispersed among California forests, has already proven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disaster-recovery-cybersecurity-news-malaysia","tag-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}