FireDome builds autonomous ‘artillery’ for wildfire defense
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Autonomous wildfire ‘artillery’ shifts some disaster response from reactive firefighting to pre-arrival infrastructure defense. Utilities, industrial operators, and municipalities in fire-prone regions should be piloting these systems now — they’re becoming part of the core resilience stack alongside sensors and microgrids.
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