Xprize, a nonprofit that holds international contests to stimulate technological innovation, unveiled an $11-million dollar competition to transform how the world detects and fights wildfires.
Still, fire agencies may be unprepared and understaffed for the expected age of extreme fires, so transformative technologies could be key,"We are in a suppression mode right now, and that is not sustainable. We've got a shortage of firefighters already," U.S. Fire Administrator Lori Moore-Merrell told Axios.
Moore-Merrell said technologies from the Xprize competition could help relieve fire personnel from responding to active fires so they could focus instead on preventing them through prescribed burns and fuels management projects.
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