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While many more people across the country are seeing the impact of wildfires and smoke , scientists are turning to the promise of big data, technology and collaboration to keep big fires from spreading. "If you manage to stop this in the first couple of hours it's a lot easier to stop," said Dr. Ilkay Altintas, the founder and director of the WIFIRE Lab at University of California San Diego. Pinpointing a fire quickly improves the chances of containing a blaze. Altintas and her team have developed a platform called Firemap designed to reduce the response time for attacking a wildfire. The platform analyzes data in new ways, starting with the collection of 911 call data where callers often provide a very general idea about the location of a fire. To enhance that accuracy, the platform relies on a system of mountaintop cameras called ALERTWildfire, built by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the Univer