Like an automated version of the manned fire lookouts used for decades to protect vulnerable forests from fire, the cameras are designed to alert officials that a fire has started, allowing them to send firefighters to the scene before it gets big. Had the camera system been in place in June 2007, the Angora Fire might have been stopped before it whipped into an inferno that destroyed more than 250 homes near South Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe’s fire chiefs have been briefed on the program and are impressed with what they learned, said Mike Brown, chief of the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2014/dec/07/cameras-might-circle-lake-tahoe-help-warn-fires/
