No fire officials were in the area, but AI was watching and alerted the authorities. “The dispatch center there was not aware of the fire,” said Scott Slumpff, ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 12:42 a.m. in Sacramento County, California. Dyer Fire has been burning on private land ...

"No one should die in a disaster" reads the website tagline for Ladris, a California-based startup offering emergency ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 2:12 a.m. in Los Angeles County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private ...

The agency is using AI to boost fire detection capabilities. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times) By Hayley Smith. Staff Writer Follow. Aug. 24, 2023 3 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options.

The chatbot, which Cal Fire says is independent of Newsom’s order, is meant to give Californians better access to “critical ...

High hopes for AI: Following Gov. Newsom’s 2023 executive order, state agencies have begun rolling out AI tools in areas like ...

San Francisco-based Pano AI, which has built about 100 AI-enabled fire lookouts in six U.S. states and Australia, is one of a growing number of startups leveraging technology to aid in wildfire ...

Six months after the deadly and devastating Eaton Fire in California, survivors are using artificial intelligence to speed up ...

The wildfire crisis is growing, but so is AI’s potential to save lives, protect communities and reshape emergency response as we know it. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. Featured.

Reverse-engineering wildfire behavior with AI. The researchers began by gathering historical wildfire data from high-resolution satellite images.

“What we do that’s unique is we combined multimodal sensors. So we’ve got gas and chemicals, heat particulates, all in there coupled with AI, and that lets us identify when there is a fire ...