Researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah are studying wildfires in order to help firefighters better predict their patterns.
The project by BYU's Chemical Engineering Department is using imaging and composition technology to look at how fires burn though different vegetation, as well as how the blazes feed off themselves, KTVX-TV reports. Hopefully, the findings will be able to provide firefighters with a better way to predict what a wildfire will do as they try to put it out.
“A fire spread model that could help the firefighters make decisions on where is this fire going, where can firefighters be safe, which houses should we save, or can we plan a fire in advance that would mitigate a huge fire," Tom Fletcher, the chair for the department and the lead on the project, told KTVX.
