The fire and rescue department need the new and younger dogs to help continue search and rescue efforts across the country.

The ability to pick out the hotspots of a fire puts responders "light-years ahead", said fire analyst Ethan Barrett.

NASA scientists were recently able to alert emergency services in Castleberry to a 120-acre field fire after they spotted it on a large imaging spectrometer. The sensor—AVIRIS-3—was flying on board a ...