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Amid the growing devastation, technology offers a promising solution once

deemed impossible: Extinguishing wildfires with sound waves. The breakthrough
came in 2015, when two undergraduate engineering students, Seth Robertson and
Viet Tran, created an acoustic fire extinguisher for their senior design project at
George Mason University.
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