'Torch Sensors' provide immediate warning of wildfires
Back in 2018, Vasya Tremsin, a high school senior from the San Francisco Bay Area, came up with a crazy idea for a science fair project, “a technology that can detect fires early,” he tells The Post. Seven years later, he and the co-founders of his fire sensor company,, are on the road to Los Angeles to join the fight against one of the largest wildfires in California history.
He never intended to launch his own business when he came up with the idea for Torch, but since the LA fires, it’s gone from a fledgling startup to an in-demand service. Their website traffic has already surged 400% over the last few weeks, Tremsin says. “People seem strongly excited or maybe desperate to have these sensors in their backyards.” During his recent trip to LA, he’s had investment meetings with several prominent tech founders, which he can’t name until deals are in place.
The real solution, Bloemers says, is accepting that we live in a “fire-prone, fire-adapted ecosystem,” and adapting to those conditions. “What we need is for communities to become their own heroes,” he says. “We need people to be prepared to support firefightersNot all private homes have the high-end protections of the Getty Center in Brentwood, whose leaders opted not to evacuate despite orders from the city, citing the building’s “marvel of anti-fire engineering.
“It’s a weekend project,” he says. “They can do it with their kids.” And it’s mostly low cost, he adds, usually no more than ato retrofit a home to make it more fire resistant. “People are attached to their shrubbery,” Bloemers says. “I get it. I’m attached to my shrubbery too. But we have to start being smarter about the things that make us vulnerable.
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