The Orange County Board of Supervisors accepted a $4.5-million state grant that will fund a 150-day pilot program for a fixed-wing aircraft that will monitor area wildfires, providing incident commanders with real-time information on fire conditions.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors accepted a $4.5-million state grant Tuesday that will fund a 150-day pilot program for a fixed-wing aircraft that will monitor area wildfires, providing incident commanders with real-time information on fire conditions.
“This new tool will immediately tell us the direction of the fire, so we can safely and rapidly evacuate residents, as well as position fire crews in precise locations to better protect life, property and infrastructure during a wildfire,” OCFA Chief Brian Fennessy said in a written statement.Images obtained by the aircraft will inform the data-based computer models developed by the WIFIRE Lab at UC San Diego.
“These state funds will help to protect our communities from fire devastation,” Petrie-Norris said in a prepared statement. “I’m excited that our hard work to secure these funds has been successful at this critical time. If a wildfire breaks out, this pilot program will potentially save lives and infrastructure.
“Fighting fires can be very expensive,” Wagner said. “All of those things end up being costly and, to the extent we can, we try to get more through the grant process.”
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