While wildfire season may be an annual occurrence, we will be best served by developing and implementing tools, partnerships, and practices 365 days a year.
A passerby on Highway 101 watches flames from the Thomas fire leap above the roadway north of Ventura on Dec. 6, 2017. Year after year, our region is struck with catastrophic wildfires that ravage our communities, leaving behind a terrible trail of destruction and loss.
But here is the challenge at hand: We don’t have enough firefighters ready to be deployed, it takes too long to bring them on board, and we need a new era of collaboration with the stakeholders involved to prevent the fires we know are on the way. Another tactic is to strengthen and expand creative public-private partnerships, including the National Guard’s FireGuard Program, which collects data from a range of sources and sensors, including images derived from satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles. Two teams of Army and Air Guard analysts – one in California and another in Colorado – receive this information and monitor remote locations at all hours of the day and night.
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