{"id":8883,"date":"2019-10-22T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T18:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2019-10-22T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T18:22:13","slug":"bracing-for-fire-when-the-wind-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/science\/bracing-for-fire-when-the-wind-blows\/","title":{"rendered":"Bracing for Fire When the Wind Blows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/35176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/rokupicts\/35176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>As recent events have shown, strong winds can spell disaster, even without the presence of fire. But when a fire does occur, the ALERTWildfire camera network deployed across the region provides rapid confirmation of emergency wildfire 911 calls, situational awareness, and in the worst-case scenarios, real-time data to help sequence evacuations. <\/p>\n<p>ALERTWildfire is a consortium of three universities: University of Nevada at Reno, UC San Diego, and University of Oregon. During the past three fire seasons (2016-2018), ALERTWildfire provided critical information for over 600 fires, including the Woolsey, Lilac, Wall, Whittier, Thomas, Tule, Woodchuck, Earthstone, Truckee, Draw, Snowstorm, Hot Pot, and Emerald fires; a 2016 arson spree in Lake Tahoe; and hundreds more.<\/p>\n<p>Join Neal Driscoll to learn how California is using technology to help firefighters and improve public preparedness during wildfire disasters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/35176\" target=\"_blank\u201d rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch \u2014  Bracing for Fire When the Wind Blows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As recent events have shown, strong winds can spell disaster, even without the presence of fire. But when a fire does occur, the ALERTWildfire camera network deployed across the region provides rapid confirmation of emergency wildfire 911 calls, situational awareness, and in the worst-case scenarios, real-time data to help sequence evacuations. ALERTWildfire is a consortium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1458,722,723,724,715,28,88],"tags":[1457,1459,1460],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}