firefighting
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Researchers Breed Naturally Flame-Resistant Cotton
Chemical flame retardants can make us safer by preventing or slowing fires, but they’re linked to a range of unsettling health effects. To get around that concern, researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture have bred a new population of cotton that can self-extinguish after encountering a flame.
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Remote-Controlled 5G Firefighting Tanks Are Coming To Douse This Fireball Country
Rheinmetall Defence Australia has been awarded $1.5 million to fund remote controlled 5G firefighting trucks.
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A New Spray-On Gel Could Help Stop Bushfires Before They Start, Researchers Say
50 million hectares of land are burned by bushfires across Australia each year, according to the CSIRO. Fighting bushfires is still mostly a reactive effort, something that happens after the fires have already ignited. But researchers at Stanford University have created a gel-like fluid that can make it much harder for fires to start or…
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Here’s One Drone That Could Actually Help In A Fire
If drones aren’t chasing firefighters away from a fire, then they’re probably close enough that the delicate plastic and sensitive sensors are slowly melting. Fire and drones are basically a terrible combination in every way, unless they’re a tool being used by firefighters to map out a burning building.