The Brief
- A Wyoming-based company makes a high-tech home sprinkler system that acts as a deterrent to wildfires.
- The sprinkler system is made for homes’ exteriors and incorporates satellite, weather and census data.
- The company claims the technology tracks fires before embers can be blown onto your property.
BERKELEY, Calif. – Based on results from the L.A. wildfires, a Wyoming company is getting tons of calls from Californian’s trying to find a high-tech way to keep their houses from burning: it’s the ultimate kind of fire insurance.
Uninsured Californians
Like hundreds of thousands of California-insured homeowners, famed landscape architect Doug Findlay and his wife, who were State Farm customers for more than three decades, found themselves without homeowners’ insurance for their Berkeley Hills home. Though the Findlay’s were able to find a far more expensive insurer, they decided that they needed something more to have a better chance at not losing their home of almost four decades.
“I’m insuring the insurance company,” said Mr. Findlay.
High-tech home sprinkler system
The Findlay’s chose an exterior home sprinkler system from a company called Frontline Wildfire Defense.
“And this one is a proactive system that helps, basically, to turn the area around your house into a bit of a rain forest,” said the homeowner. ” A self-defense mechanism for your home so you can safely get out of harm’s way and not make a trade-off on your home defending itself,” said Frontline Wildfire Defense CEO Harry Statter.…