AI-powered cameras are watching for fire in the Wasatch Back

Fire lookouts have spent more than a century in towers above the western United States keeping watch for smoke. Now, artificial intelligence can do the same.

(North Summit Fire District) A Pano AI camera system caught this smoldering fire near Lewis Peak July 17, 2026, and North Summit firefighters subsequently extinguished it.

AI-powered cameras are watching for fire in the Wasatch Back

Fire lookouts have spent more than a century in towers above the western United States keeping watch for smoke. Now, artificial intelligence can do the same.

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