
They are close to their goal of having 100 cameras around California by the end of the year.įire managers can manually rotate, tilt, pan and zoom the cameras. Kent and his colleague Neal Driscoll, professor of geoscience and geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, are working feverishly, guiding their crews to install cameras, with as many as three a week being installed in recent weeks as funding comes available. “I’m happy with the system so far – but there are plenty of other areas that are in dire need of this technology.” “Clearly, more systems are needed throughout the west,” Kent said.


The high-definition, 24/7/365 near-infrared night-capable fire cameras cover areas of Nevada and California’s Sierra Nevada, and now includes Sonoma County, San Diego County and Santa Barbara County.
