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Considering fire 🔥; Getting likes👍, follows, shares in a misleading way; 🧻🐨 Toilet paper, eucalyptus and the lack of respect for environmental values 🌏. The latest news on wildfire, summarized for you!

We're so pleased to be able to share this Univision piece by Saddam Aguayo so that people who feel more comfortable hablando en español tambien se puede aprender sobre nuestras herramientas para los helicópteros! https://lnkd.in/gpNjQFq4

We are the fire creature, known unknowns, water🚰, carbon, soil, caribou 🦌, cowboy country, burning and replanting 🌲—the latest fire news 🔥.

"What happens if you set a region full of technology entrepreneurs and investors on fire? They start companies. Dozens of start-ups, backed by climate-minded investors with more than $200 million in capital, are developing technology designed to tackle a fundamental challenge of the warming world." Nice to see a Rain shoutout included in this coverage of the great work Convective Capital, Megafire Action, BurnBot, Inc. and Kodama Systems are doing in the #firetech and #climate space. And way to close it out, Kate Dargan Marquis. Those autonomous systems you mention... sound kind of familiar. Read the unlocked article here: https://lnkd.in/gz3GkUp8

Rain's CEO Maxwell Brodie recently sat down with VoLo Foundation's Shannon Maganiezin for a conversation about the relationship between #wildfire, #climate and... #robots. 🔥 🌎 🤖 "When we think about the most dangerous places in our universe... outer space, or the deepest depths of the seas, we send robots. We send our robots to places where humans could be put into harm's way. At Rain we very much envision a future where these autonomous systems are keeping humans safe. A centrally located remote autonomy operator can oversee numerous autonomous aircraft, strategically prepositioned throughout high wildfire risk areas. But even in the short term, and this is something we really emphasize with our fire agency partners, is that autonomy technology can support existing human piloted missions with additional layers of safety. Aerial firefighting is not a safe job. In the United States alone there have been on average 6 aerial firefighting fatalities over the past four years, per year. This is just something we accept right now, but it’s not something we have to accept. The technology exists to significantly improve the safety of these operations—sense and avoid obstacles, terrain, wires, towers—and that is something we are very excited to introduce and partner with fire agencies on, taking the first initial step towards fully uncrewed operations.” Enjoy the full episode here on Spotify or Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gk66SvCP

Forests of the North 🌲, wildfire salvage logging 🪵, federal firefighter pay raises 💵, living with wildfire as the climate shifts 🌎 and the hazards of necessity ⚠️—what's in the news about fire 🔥, right now.

In the thick of wildfire season, who among us doesn’t want a more resilient world that’s resistant to the damage of wildfires? In the final video in our series from the Munich Re Ventures and Convective Capital panel "Welcome to Wildfire Season", host Jay Ribakove wrapped up with this final question: It’s a hard technology problem to make an impact on wildfire. What big technology achievements have your teams had to make? Hear about the trickiness of teaching computers to recognize fire in the landscape—when no two fires look alike, and there are many things that look like fire—and about how businesses are leveraging decades of public investment in autonomy and wildfire models to inform both wildfire response and risk assessment for insurers. Follow the link below to watch the fireside chat end-to-end and learn more about the scale of the wildfire problem and some potential solutions with Rain's CEO Maxwell Brodie, Sonia Kastner of Pano AI and Kevin Stein of Delos Insurance Solutions. https://lnkd.in/gizxKnRV #wildfire #climate #venturecapital

"Maxwell Brodie wanted to focus on a common problem: Even when a wildfire is detected quickly, firefighters sometimes can’t arrive soon enough to stop it. His startup, Rain, makes software that gives autonomous helicopters the ability to respond to wildfires. Fire agencies could use the tech to put a network of helicopters in place in remote locations, ready to respond as soon as a fire is detected." Thanks very much to Adele Peters for taking the time out of her Park Fire reporting to dig into what we're up to at Rain! https://lnkd.in/ghiv7Rp4

As fires increase in frequency and severity, new tools are making a difference on how many fires started (27,982 this year so far) get large (89 large wildfires are currently burning). Huge props to the brave folks (more than 27,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to wildfires) out there protecting our communities from these fires, including the 22 where evacuation orders are currently in place. Every wildfire starts small, and our system is designed to bring resources to bear the moment a fire is detected. Many thanks to the team at ABC7 News Bay Area, especially Tim Didion, for sharing what we were up to with a capstone project team at Stanford University during the previous academic year. Great job Kristie Park and Chris Copans on explaining your team's thought process on pelletized water for aerial firefighting. (kind of wish they'd shown the boba 🧋 trials images but maybe next time) https://lnkd.in/gBweEWQ3

Venture markets and emerging technologies have a role to play in building a more resilient world that is resistant to the damage of wildfires. 🔥 Panel host Jay Ribakove threw out this question to a panel of senior leaders working across all parts of the #wildfire protection stack: As a fairly nascent category, what do you wish VCs understood about this space? 🏠 Kevin Stein of Delos Insurance Solutions painted the big picture. “Wildfire is a solvable problem. We can learn to live, and we can adapt as a society—as a human race—to live in this world. We have to.” 📷 Sonia Kastner of Pano AI laid out a set of key takeaways including, “When you’re solving literally a hair-on-fire problem, even in a downturned recession this won’t be the first thing to be cut.” 🚁 Maxwell Brodie from Rain pointed out a knowledge gap, "From my experience in engaging with investors, very, very few investors understand how to interpret what progress looks like in a government sales cycle. It is a huge opportunity for the investors that figure out how to interpret those signals." Thank you to Munich Re Ventures' Ben Bergsma and Convective Capital's Jay Ribakove for hosting a lively conversation. Keep your eyes out for one more short take from this fireside chat about the scale of the wildfire problem and potential solutions. #firetech #climate #venturecapital