OUR MISSION

Consistent with UC’s mission to serve the best interests of the State, the Fire Research Group is working toward the development and implementation of more effective technological solutions for uncontrolled fires in wildlands, cities and industrial complexes. It is our belief that by engaging a broad range of talent across the State of California and beyond, we can innovate new approaches to address this challenge for the State of California, the nation and the world.

RESEARCH SCOPE

Uncontrolled fires are a growing problem that will continue to vex countries around the globe and drain their resources. In the popular press, year after year there are fire-horror stories such as:

Mendocino Fire Reaches Record Size in California (Published 2018) The Mendocino Complex Fire, northwest of Sacramento, topped 290,000 acres as of Tuesday morning, surpassing last year’s Thomas Fire. www.nytimes.com

Behind Most Wildfires, a Person and a Spark: ‘We Bring Fire With Us’ (Published 2018) Climate change may be making California’s wildfires more extreme, but they are almost all ignited by human activity, not natural causes. www.nytimes.com

The Challenge of Fighting California Wildfires (Published 2018) A firefighter marvels at the power of the natural forces he must face. www.nytimes.com

‘The New Normal’: Wildfires Roar Across the West, Again (Published 2018) Wildfires are once again racing across California, Colorado, New Mexico and other Western states, scorching buildings and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. www.nytimes.com

If this problem is ever to be managed effectively, harmonization of modern engineering technology and environmental science is going to be needed. The Fire Research Group (FRG) consists of researchers at UC Berkeley, The Space Sciences Laboratory (Berkeley), Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, industry and across that State of California that bring together expertise across a wide range of technological fields involving

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