UC Berkeley forms Fire Research Group to work on engineering solutions to wildfires

UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering Tarek Zohdi has led the launch of the Fire Research Group, or FRG, to create and implement engineering solutions for uncontrolled wildfires.
The FRG is composed of researchers from UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, the Space Sciences Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. The FRG aims to coordinate engineering, environmental and policy experts to support research into preventing and fighting uncontrolled wildfires.
Zohdi, who is also chief technology officer of the UC Berkeley Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, added that the FRG was formalized two months ago, and the research in these areas was previously “sporadic” and never organized.