Typically, the primary indicator of a burgeoning wildfire in California is a plume of hazy, gray smoke wafting through the air, seen by satellites or cameras. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, is alerted, and mitigation and containment efforts ensue. But Zhaodan Kong , a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis, thinks that living by the idea "where there's smoke, there's fire," gets firefighters to the problem too late, after it has already spread and is difficult to contain.

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