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AI teaming up with California firefighters to spot smoke before it spirals into chaos
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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is partnering with an AI program to help detect wildfires before they spread chaos and fatalities.
"We’ve got an automated system that never sleeps, never rests, watching the North Bay 24 hours, seven days a week," Cal Fire Napa-Lake-Sonoma Unit Chief Mike Marcucci told Fox 2.
California is the state most threatened by wildfires in the nation, with 7,396 recorded wildfires in 2021 alone, and 2.5 million acres burned. The Golden State recorded another 7,447 wildfires last year, which burned a combined 331,360 acres.
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