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Published Thursday, May 01, 2008

In Laguna Beach, a seaside community of approximately 24,000 in southern California, citizens have taken charge of fire prevention and detection. The Greater Laguna Coast Fire Safe Council, a non-profit community organization formed by residents who lost their homes in a major fire in 1993, have spearheaded deployment of a wireless video surveillance network to monitor and detect fire activity in hard-to-reach wildland areas. On Oct. 27, 1993, a fire started in the wilderness of the city's Laguna Canyon Road and spread quickly, destroying 391 homes, damaging 645 others and burning approximately 16,680 acres in its path. Following ...

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