Mark Finney, Research is featured on the CBS newsclip "Inside the search for a better way to fight wildfires" which aired in August '16.
Missoula, Montana -- Hundreds of square miles in California have been overcome by wildfires this summer, in part fueled by a prolonged drought.
And while fierefighters in Southern California work around the clock to control the flames, scientists hundreds of miles away are waging a different sort of battle - the one to fully understand how these blazes spread. Read more...
Additional clips:
Researchers: Wildfires aren't being fought correctly (featured during the CBS Morning News)
WATCH: Pine needles ignite without a flame (interview with research mechanical engineer Sara McAllister talking about convection heat)
Video shows how fire spreads in slow motion (Mark Finney demonstrates fire spread in the burn chamber)