We’ve really come to the experts. … They’ve been working for years on how to predict but also how to prepare for wildfires. … So let’s start with what they are studying. We hooked up with UC Irvine’s Tirtha Banerjee and his whole group who’s been doing these field studies while they look at how wildfires spread. They learned a couple of years ago, that the embers can go miles ahead of the fronts of fires but  now they are studying in the field, for the first time, how each of those embers are shaped, their velocities, how they act and this will help predict where fires will go in the future. It will be invaluable research that will then be put into a lot the modeling. Watch More

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