California Awards +$500,000 to WPI Researchers to Develop New Wildfire Defense Tools

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers Albert Simeoni and James Urban have been awarded $514,981 by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) to develop a model to predict how fire spreads from burning wildlands to communities so that fire protection engineers can design homes and surrounding landscaping to better withstand destructive

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