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Firefighters often have to get down on hands and knees just to feel for hotspots—the kind that can keep smoldering underground and reignite later.

In this 1-minute team intro, Envisioning Labs partners with the San Juan Islands Conservation District to field-test a new approach for the smoldering phase of fire: helping crews identify underground hotspots faster, then enabling a less labor-intensive method to suppress them—with the goal of reducing effort, cost, and risk during mop-up and prescribed fire operations.

We’re joined by Cliff Edwards (Chief Innovation Officer, Envisioning Labs) and Nick Walsh (Ecological Restoration Officer, San Juan Islands Conservation District).

The Fire Grand Challenge is a global innovation competition led by Conservation X Labs that pairs breakthrough tools with place-based partners—then field-tests what works—to help communities live more safely with fire.

Learn more:
https://conservationxlabs.com

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Chapters:
00:00 Why hotspots are so hard to find
00:10 The innovation: detect smoldering/underground fire
00:22 Faster hotspot finding
00:28 Less labor-intensive suppression
00:31 Why the partnership matters (prescribed fire + effectiveness)
00:47 Impact: less labor, hopefully less cost

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