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FireDome launches projectiles filled with fire retardants to stop wildfires


Inspired by Israel's Iron Dome, the startup's automated system hopes to protect everything from neighborhoods to vineyards in coming fire seasons.

The company’s technology resembles Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, which identifies, tracks, and destroys incoming rockets. The system can create a barrier by launching a series of fire retardant-filled capsules filled to surround a medium-sized patch of land, something on the order of a neighborhood, resort, or vineyard. “I was in California, visited some vineyards in Napa and Sonoma, and they told me it was a huge fire, and no one came to protect us,” Benjamini said about a trip he took two weeks ago.

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