New federal funding will help a UBC Okanagan assistant professor deploy 150 fire-risk sensors across First Nations communities in B.C., to help predict wildfire risk and potential fire behaviour.

The research by Mathieu Bourbonnais is part of a partnership between UBC Okanagan and the First Nations Emergency Services Society to develop new technologies that “support Indigenous fire stewardship.”

The federal government announced Tuesday that it's contributing $2.3 million to support the partnership, part of $41.7 million announced for 20 wildfire projects across Canada.

“By weaving Indigenous knowledge and values with new fire-risk sensor technology and predictive models, this project will help mitigate the risk of severe wildfire to Indigenous, economic and natural resource values, and

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