Southern California may demand new techniques in fire science, but I don’t think anyone had explosives in mind when they started their research… Yet, apparently that’s exactly what a group in New Mexico is doing: putting out fires by blowing them up.
https://gizmodo.com/fires-in-southern-california-are-weird-demanding-new-t-1577489862
https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-these-engineers-are-fighting-bushfires-wit-1579763373
