George Whitesides
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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And actually, it's part of that same fire.
Some of those treatments weren't done, and actually there were communities that were lost in that fire, tragically.
What we need is innovation and technology that can rapidly detect and assess fire, and then quickly put it out when it gets bad.
Here we need to look at the example of the quick reaction force of Southern California, which is really designed in some ways for these toughest days.
The QRF is a public-private partnership which now has three Chinook helicopters.
These are the big ones with the two rotors on the top.
And each of them can drop up to 3,000 gallons of water on a fire, day or night, and they can do it very precisely.
They can also refill up to six times an hour, so they can bring a lot of mass to the problem.
Over the course of two years of demonstrations, the QRF has demonstrated that this model has great potential, that in fact, if you can bring a lot of fire management resource to a fire very quickly, you can get on top of fires before they get big and unmanageable.
We can build a world in which communities are resilient to wildfire and in which forests are brought back into a healthy balance.
So let's get to work, let's learn from fire, and let's build a resilient, sustainable future.
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