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This massive network of wildfire cameras helps California save lives
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ALERTWildfire technicians work to install a camera at the Kennedy Gold Mine in Jackson, California on April 21.Max Whittaker, Special to the SF ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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An ALERTWildfire camera is mounted on the top of the head frame of the Kennedy Gold Mine in Jackson, California.Max Whittaker, Special to the SF ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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An ALERTWildfire camera is mounted on the top of the head frame of the Kennedy Gold Mine in Jackson, California.Max Whittaker, Special to the SF ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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ALERTWildfire technician Andrew Main mounts a camera to the head frame of the Kennedy Gold Mine in Jackson, California.Max Whittaker, Special to the SF ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
ParkMobile Partners with UC Davis to Provide Daily Parking Rates on Campus
Students and Employees Will Now be Able to Purchase Discounted Daily Parking Passes via Mobile App
Monday, February 1, 2021 3:38 PM
ParkMobile, the leading provider of smart parking and mobility solutions in North America, announced the launch of new daily parking rates at the University of California, Davis campus. Students and employees with a valid university email address will be able to use the ParkMobile app to access special daily parking rates at nearly 11,000 spaces around campus in the open surface lots and multi-level garages. Paying a daily rate with the ParkMobile app will replace the monthly permits program, providing more flexibility to students and faculty. You can find more information about the changes to the UC Davis parking program at taps.ucdavis.edu/dailyrates.
/PRNewswire/ ParkMobile, the leading provider of smart parking and mobility solutions in North America, announced today the launch of new daily parking.
Reviewing the horrid global 2020 wildfire season
The 2020 global wildfire season brought extreme fire activity to the western U.S., Australia, the Arctic, and Brazil, making it the fifth most expensive year for wildfire losses on record.
The year began with an unprecedented fire event in Australia, where wildfire smoke in the capital city of Canberra registered the worst air quality readings in the world on January 1. The Canberra Times reported that smoke billowing through the city exceeded the “hazardous” threshold by over a factor of 20.
Australia in 2019 had experienced its hottest and driest year on record, which helped drive fires that burned an astonishing 46 million acres – an area larger than the state of Florida – during the 2019-2020 fire season. While larger areas of the nation have burnt in at least four previous years, the 2019-2020 wildfires affected a larger share of forested and populated areas than previous fires did, resulting in far more impacts to