However, in its current state, this wildfire notification system does little to help home and business owners to proactively defend their homes and business against raging forces of wildfires and wildfire ember storms, in any meaningful way.Ĭlearly, conventional fire suppression methods are not working as needed to protect neighborhoods, homes, businesses and human life from the raging forces of wildfires. The purpose of this mobile application is to provide users with (i) notifications on where wildfires are burning at a given moment in time, (ii) notifications on the risks of wildfire in certain regions, (iii) helpful ways of preparing for wildfires, and (iv) other useful information to help people stay out of harm's way during a wildfire. Recently, the State of California deployed its CAL FIRE™ mobile application for smartphones and other mobile computing devices. And millions of homes have been left completed undefended and vulnerable against wildfire ember storms. While these methods are used, the results have not been adequate in most instances where wildfires are raging across land under strong winds. Phos-Chek® Fire Retardant) dropping physical fire break by bulldozing, to stall the advance of wildfire physical fire break by pre-burning, to stall the advance of wildfire and chemical fire break by dropping fire retardant chemical such as Phos-Chek® chemical over land, to stall the advance of wildfire. Various conventional methods have been used for fighting and defending against wildfires, namely: aerial water dropping aerial fire retardant chemical (e.g. 6B, the energy and turbulence of a wildfire ember storm will rage furiously especially in very dry, low relative-humidly climates. 6A, attacking homes and buildings by radiant heat, direct flame contact, burning debris (e.g. This is especially true when wildfires are driven by strong prevailing winds, as illustrated in FIG. However, even with such measures, most homes and buildings are still very vulnerable to wildfire ember storms when they strike a neighborhood. 2018/0078801, for example, are being proposed for buildings to provide defense against wildfires. Even attic and roof sprinkler systems as disclosed in US Patent Application Publication No. 3A, 3B and 3C, and closable soffit air vents as shown in FIGS. In recent years, some measures have been made to provide closable attic vents as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, to allow wind-driven hot wildfire embers to fly into hot combustible attics, and burn the entire house down from the attic to the ground. A primary reason this is possible is because most production houses have attic-ventilation screens, designed as illustrated in FIGS. If there is low humidity, then these embers can fly from dry grass hillsides, like outside Santa Rosa, and ignite and destroy entire neighborhoods of homes. Governor Brown of California has asked President Trump for $7.5 billion dollars to rebuild Santa Rosa.ĭespite extensive news coverage, few recognize that wildfire embers fly long distances based on the relative humidity of the air. Some estimates of the property damage in Northern California fires exceed $3 billion. The fires killed more than 40 people and destroyed 8000 structures. In 2017, over 8 million acres were scorched by wildfires. The US federal government is spending billions of US dollars annually on wildfire defense, only to lose record numbers of acreage and homes. Brief Description of the State of Knowledge in the Art The present invention is directed towards improvements in science and technology applied in the defense of private and public property, and human and animal life, against the ravaging and destructive forces of wildfires whether caused by lightening, accident, arson or terrorism. BACKGROUND OF INVENTION Field of Invention 2, 2017, each said Patent Application being incorporated herein by reference as if fully set forth herein. 9, 2018 which is a Continuation-in-Part (CIP) of copending patent application Ser. 20, 2018 and copending patent application Ser. 18, 2018, which is a Continuation-in-Part (CIP) of copending patent application Ser. 18, 2018 which is a Continuation-in-Part (CIP) of copending patent application Ser. The present patent application is a Continuation-in-Part (CIP) of: copending application Ser.
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