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As the world gets hotter and drier due to the ever-worsening climate crisis, fires also grow larger, become more aggressive, and are much harder to suppress. Corinna Bellizzi unveils a smarter fire defense method to modernize emergency response with Sunny Sethi, Founder and CEO of HEN Technologies. Sunny presents how they leverage AI, IoT, and advanced fluid dynamics to create physics-informed neural networks that serve as the world’s first end-to-end fire suppression ecosystem. They discuss how this innovative tool allows for faster, more comprehensive, and more targeted ways to control and get rid of fire, especially environmentally destructive wildfires. Sunny also shares what this means for water conservation, ecological preservation, and the future of government grants.

About Sunny Sethi

Sunny is Founder/CEO of HEN Technologies, a deep-tech company revolutionizing firefighter defense. Leading the development of the world’s first end-to-end fire suppression ecosystem, Sunny leverages AI, IoT, and advanced fluid dynamics to modernize emergency response. Under his leadership, HEN has developed breakthrough devices that increase fire suppression rates by up to 300% while conserving 67% of water usage.

A seasoned R&D leader, Sunny brings a unique deep-tech approach to climate resilience. Prior to HEN, he led R&D Engineer at TE Connectivity and at SunPower Corporation, where he pioneered platform technologies and solved complex manufacturing challenges in the automotive and photovoltaic sectors. He also founded ADAP Nanotech, a nanomaterials company funded by a US Air Force STTR grant.

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A Resilient Approach to Forest Fire with Sandra Younger: https://caremorebebetter.com/a-resilient-approach-to-forest-fire-with-sandra-younger/

Show Notes:

• 02:04 – How The Wildfire Crisis Changed In Recent Years
• 14:06 – The Role Of AI In Putting Out Fires
• 21:47 – Utilizing The Internet Of Things For Fire Suppression
• 26:55 – The Costs Of Smarter Fire Defense
• 33:04 – Get Int Touch With HEN Technologies
• 37:34 – Discussion Wrap-up And Closing Words

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Smarter Fire Defense For A Hotter, Drier World With Sunny Sethi, CEO Of HEN Technologies

Welcome, Regenerators. Each episode, we explore the intersection of sustainability, justice, and regenerative thinking through conversations with leaders who are working to build a healthier future for people and planet. If you’ve been with us for a while, you may remember my earlier conversation with Sandra Younger, A Resilient Approach to Forest Fire. In that episode, we explored what it means to survive wildfire, rebuild after trauma, and prepare communities for a future that’s shaped by climate disruption.

In this episode, we’re continuing that conversation from another angle, as we learn how to better prepare for fire in the first place, and how to effectively recover from it. My guest is helping reimagine what fire defense can look like in a hotter, drier, and more volatile world. Sunny Sethi is the Founder and CEO of HEN Technologies, a deep-tech company working to revolutionize firefighting and also the defense from fire through what is described as the world’s first end-to-end fire suppression ecosystem. Sunny, I want to welcome you to the show.

Thank you for having me here.

How The Wildfire Crisis Changed In Recent Years

Now, in my earlier conversation with Sandra Younger, I hope you got a chance to read that episode, we focused on the lived experience of wildfire trauma, evacuation, and recovery. Now, your work enters this story through a different point in the chain, active fire defense. From your perspective, how has the wildfire crisis really changed in recent years? Why do legacy fire suppression systems no longer match the scale or complexity of today’s threat?

If you look at wildfire statistics from Cal Fire, in the last 20 years, we had more mega fires than 100 years before that. There are multiple reasons for it. The climate is getting hotter, we have more WUI, which is Wildland-Urban Interface developments, houses are made of more combustible material so they burn faster, up to eight times faster. All of this combined has changed the fire dynamics, but the tools that we are using for suppression are still from 1950s, 1970s, and because of this gap, we are facing more and more mega fires.

Unfortunate, but it’s also a reality. I was evacuated myself for ten days because of fire coming in through the CZU fire complex in California. I have friends who work for Cal Fire, one of whom suffered from PTSD from that line of work. It’s not new in that field. A lot of people burn out because the threats get bigger and they’re understaffed. There’s not a lot you can do when an entire mountainside is burning.

The impact does not stay temporarily. Think about in 2024, we had billions of tons of carbon being pumped back into the atmosphere. We are using our most precious resource. Especially in places like California and Texas where water is actually scarce. We spend millions of gallons of water on big fires. We are seeing hydraulic collapse, like what happened in the Oakland fires and the Palisades fires. I have a good friend whose house burned in Palisades. Challenge is now in Southern California, it’s harder to get insurance than to get a mortgage.

What does that mean? If your house got burned down, you’re not only paying but it’s very hard to rebuild because the insurance companies are fleeing the state, we had State Farm flee the state, we had other insurance companies flee the state. It’s not just a very immediate impact but this is a very ongoing problem which can impact our economy, impact the lives of people in a very negative way.

Let’s talk about hydraulic collapse for a second because I don’t think people necessarily understand that’s essentially when the fire pumps stop working, right?

Yeah, so there could be multiple reasons for hydraulic collapse. One of the things which we are realizing and again, my background is not in firefighting, I’m actually have a phd in Materials Science, I’ve worked in deep tech my entire life and I’m learning a lot of these things myself. There is a communication gap between the supply and the demand. Supply being the water system, which is underground, which is through hydrants, through water tenders and the demand, which is firefighters putting water on the active fire.

We had cases where if you attach multiple fire engines to a hydrant and there is another hydrant which is on the same zone, but there is a one fire hydrant or fire engine there, the pressure differential can create havoc because now, that one engine does not have enough pumping energy to get the right pressure. You’re going in the fire thinking, and one of my mentors tell me he’s a fire chief, there is something called the infinite water hypothesis. That means you’re going in the fire, you’re attached to the hydrant, you think your water can never run out. Guess what? It does run out, and we are seeing that time and time again.

People who live on the coast of California, I heard some say things like, “Well, why can’t they just take the salt water?” They’re going to all these fresh water sources and they’re taking the fresh water to dump on forests. What they fail to realize is that if you’re taking salt water from the ocean and dumping it on the forest, the forest will never be able to regrow because there’s too much salt and the salt essentially creates scorched earth there. We have issues with water supply as it is, especially with longer droughts and shorter rainy seasons.

One of the biggest challenges is we tend to get our rain all in a shorter span of months than we were 10, 20, 30 years ago. The deluge of water comes all at once, which means most of it drifts into sea as opposed to restoring our water tables. At the same time, you have eight months of the year where there’s no water coming from the sky. That can create real challenges for these communities. What do you do if water is scarce? What are your systems help to create for those that are working to create more defensible perimeters and things along these lines?

Before I go into how we can do help that with technology, I want to also talk a little bit about what happens in a fire. Most of the fires generally start small. There is something called an initial attack. Imagine a McDonald’s caught on fire, unfortunate. If we are able to suppress it in time, we’re good. If we’re not able to suppress it and it’s a high wind event, the next two buildings will catch on fire. If we’re not able to suppress those, now the ten buildings are on fire.

Our goal is to be able to contain it as fast as possible. Now, if we had infinite resources and we’re like, “As soon as a building is on fire, I’m going to put a million gallons of water on it right away,” we’re good. We don’t have infinite resources, so how do we make sure to make our existing resources more efficient, multiply them, not just increase them linearly? That’s where our journey started. I’m a nerd, so please stop me if I go too much into physics.

When I started looking at the ways water absorbs heat, I realized that we are wasting a lot of water. As the water, which is a front end of the spear, at the nozzle, it’s going from the nozzle to the fire, not all the water is absorbing heat and evaporating. Only 10 to 20% is doing that. That’s where it all started. I said, “Okay, can we actually make this pattern more efficient? Can we actually absorb heat in a more effective way?” That’s where we got funding from a federal agency called the National Science Foundation and they’re like, “Okay, let’s do a fundamental study, let’s figure out how can we do it.” We built our first nozzles, which can actually suppress fires 2 to 3 times faster and conserve 50% to 60% water.

Our devices were able to suppress fires faster using less water. This was something which was unheard of because if you have to suppress fire faster, you have to use more water. Now we’re able to suppress it faster using less water. As we started looking back into the suppression mechanism, into fire engines, how they’re controlling the water, into the deck guns, into all the information that needs to flow from the hydrant to the fire engines, we started creating this end-to-end infrastructure where you’re not only suppressing fire faster, you’re getting the right information.

You’re moving from reactive to proactive, because now, we can start integrating APIs from weather, which is very critical to give you an example, if a fire is going in one direction and if the wind shifts even slightly, it may go in a completely different direction. That information right now is not available very handily to incident commanders. That’s what we’re building and integrating with the hardware.

This is how you’re bringing in things like the internet of things in order to ensure that you know when directions are shifting first and you would direct water to ward that off, is that correct?

That is correct. We are building intelligence in our digital command system. I’ll give you an example. If a building is on fire and there are other buildings next to it which have the potential to catch on fire, fire departments like to start wetting them before they catch on fire, it’s called exposure control. Our software actually measures the distance between the buildings. It is looking at the wind pattern. It can provide battalion commander insights on “Guys, you need to start wetting these buildings faster.” We’re also bringing in water data, so they also know which hydrant has how much pressure, how much water is in the fire engine, and once they start flowing it, how much water is left, how much time is left.

In this case, I’m just imagining a neighborhood where they might already be seeing ash fall and the ash can actually light fires, that’s part of the problem. They might have already been evacuated so the people aren’t necessarily there to help defend their own homes anyway, and doing so with their hose in their garden isn’t really going to do much, they don’t have the water pressure for it.

In this case, the fire engines, let’s just say they have enough of them in supply where they’re not already short of the equipment that they would need, they could go to this particular spot and wet down the buildings at least, so they’re less likely to catch fire and then move on to fight the line of the fire again. Is that the concept?

Yeah. You said something very important. You said, “Hopefully, they have enough equipment.” in engineering, we say hope is not a strategy. What is a strategy? It’s hard numbers. That’s where we are bringing our technology in. We know the locations of apparatus that are there even from neighboring fire departments, we know the water availability through apis and we know the changing wind pattern.

Now we can take all of that data, use our AI models and start generating insights. Start providing that information to the incident commander and firefighters like, “Guys, let’s do this.” It’s still human in the loop, but in a fire, the ground is very stressful. I have been to a few live fires myself, it’s extremely stressful, so any decision support system that we can provide, it makes a big difference.

Using AI models, firefighters can generate insights faster and deliver vital information to incident commanders.

The Role Of AI In Putting Out Fires

I know that the government has fallen under criticism for how much they’re willing to put in the hands of AI these days. We’ve seen this in the news now with Anthropic being criticized by our Secretary of Defense or Secretary of War, as he’s now called, essentially saying he wants for the AI to be able to make life and death decisions.

In the case of fire, that is not necessarily the case, but people are at risk and people are threatened. Entire neighborhoods could get cordoned off if a fire moves quickly. How do you see AI as playing a role here and how much should we be relying on it versus the human intelligence or on the ground visibility?

We are very aware of these challenges. What we use is a very special type of neural network. It’s called physics-informed neural networks.

Okay, so like nodal technologies.

Yes. For qualitative things, like “I want to write a poem,” those large language models might do things and they have hallucinations. We are dealing with quantitative things. We’re dealing with things which are governed by laws of physics, conservation of mass, conservation of energy, conservation of momentum. We use those bounding conditions to make sure that our models don’t go crazy or don’t hallucinate, so they’re rock solid.

The advantage of using those systems is they can handle a lot of variables. Think of a fire ground. Same conditions never happen twice. Traditional methods are very hard. They cannot predict things that we want them to predict. We want something which can adapt, which can learn, but it is still bound within physical laws because we’re dealing with quantitative systems and provide those insights. The final click on the button is still the incident commander.

We don’t want AI to press the button, but we want them to tell, “Engine number 6 is running low on water, only 3 minutes of water is left.” That’s real evidence, but now the incident commander is aware of it or the firefighter has been in building for more than eight minutes. They should not be in the building for more than ten minutes in most of the scenarios because of the SCBA, the oxygen they carry. This is how we are making it easier without making it a completely AI-based system. It’s helping them rather than taking charge.

How do you think about some of the fire abatement systems that could be integrated, or are they integrated with what you do? I’m thinking specifically of, let’s say, sprinkler systems, fire sprinkler systems, perimeter sprinkler systems that are all built to try and at least defend property. Usually, this is in higher-income areas where they can have larger fire breaks between properties and things along these lines. What do you think about those technologies? Also, I’ve even heard about things like fireproof builds, which to me sound astounding. I’d love your thoughts on these two things and how feasible they are as collaborative pieces of the puzzle in what you do.

I think sprinklers have a real use case. We don’t just want to focus on affluent communities, we want to focus on a place where everyone can afford it. There is a second nuance to the system, which is water availability. When a lot of these sprinklers are tested, they are tested one house at a time. They might work perfectly. Now imagine a mega fire where 100 houses are in danger and the sprinkler system turns on.

As with Palisades as an example.

They might work when you’re installing it, but will they work in actual fire? Not with the current technology. We do want to integrate some intelligence in a way where we can assess the threat and we can turn them on in a very intelligent way so that we don’t lose the water, we don’t lose the pressure. Again, we’re talking about and your background is in resource conservation. You understand that we don’t have infinite water. How do we make sure the water we have can be used in the most effective way? That’s where we’re at.

We’re stuck in that Catch-22 situation. The reason we have more fires is that we don’t have enough water. It’s not as simple as what did Donald Trump say, “You turn on that spigot up in Canada,” or something, which was just hogwash. It wasn’t true. It’s not as simple as just going to the canals and grabbing water or going to the ocean and grabbing water. Sadly, it’s not as simple as that. I’ve been close enough to those active wildfires where you have the helicopters coming into the reservoir near our home, which is our fresh water. It’s the fresh water for the community.

You can see the levels of the lake gone down from one day to the next because of the active firefighting. The stresses on the community will subsist after the fire has passed, whether or not it simply burned out the land and is no longer a challenge, or if it’s something that you were able to succeed and actually put that fire out.

There is one more. I’ve been talking to some of my European firefighter friends. They are very conscious about how much water they put on a building. Not just because they’re trying to conserve water, but there is something called a runoff. Runoff means that water that hits the burning building did not evaporate, falls on the ground and flows in your water reservoirs or lakes. That water is very toxic, because our buildings are made of plastics and we have all the adhesives in our furniture and those things.

Now, if you’re putting excess water, that runoff is going into your reservoir and it’s not just depleting it, it’s making it dirty. We can have all filtration systems but we also know that a lot of organic compounds can pass through those systems. Are we impacting our long-term health? Maybe we are. That’s another thing that we’re keeping in mind when we develop our systems.

Utilizing The Internet Of Things For Fire Suppression

Flame retardants themselves have forever chemicals in them. It’s a challenge. Dioxins, furans, pcbs, all these things are present in our furniture and flame retardants those things that you might use to put out a fire also have a lot of chemicals in them. For those reading that are also concerned with fire, where is the silver lining? Where is the hope for them? How can this all come together as a package to help support people and ensure that they’re less likely to lose their homes and their communities to fire?

See, my North Star vision to solve this problem, and again, it’s a very complicated problem, it’s not like just building an app, is that I see it as three parts of the solution. There is a muscle, a muscle I see on the fire ground where the equipment is optimized to suppress fire as fast as possible using least amount of water. They have the IoT sensor and all of that data is going in the second layer, which is the nervous system, where it’s all processed.

Let’s stop here for just a second. I know we’ve said IoT a couple of times, just for those that don’t know, IoT represents internet of things. Essentially, that means that you’re able to capture data from different pieces of technology. Can you explain that in more layperson’s terms?

Yeah, 100%. I’ll take a real-life example of a water pump in a fire engine. As the water is flowing through the pump into multiple hoses that are going through it, currently, we cannot digitally or quantitatively record the exact flow rate that is flowing, so flow rate is how much water is flowing per minute, and total amount of water that is used. The challenge this presents is that now, someone on that engine, and think of a fire ground as huge.

There are dozens of fire engines talking about big fires and hundreds of firefighters, someone has to keep an eye on everything that’s happening. Take 100-acre fire, 50 different engines are there, it’s impossible to keep an eye on how much water is flowing, how much water is left, which hydrant is working, which is not working.

Now, what HEN is doing, we’re putting these sensors, so these measure pressure, they measure flow rate of each and every hose, each and every nozzle. There are location sensors as well. All of this is coded to that particular fire engine so we know which engine is drawing how much water from the hydrant, how much it is flowing. The Internet of Things simply means that this data is also sent to the cloud, where we can start processing it.

It could be as simple as, like for me in my home, we have a special battery that we used to put in our fire alarms. Now in California, laws have changed and so the batteries are supposed to be embedded and we can’t use them anymore. It would send an alert to my husband’s phone if we were away from home if the fire alarm went off, which I loved. I thought that was amazing. He’s a technologist, so he’s doing that stuff before they had as many smart devices in your home.

It’s able to even send us a signal. Every time my garage door opens and closes, he gets an alert on his phone as well. It’s a way to monitor coming and going from our home. Each of those things is talking via a Wi-Fi signal up into the cloud and then you’re able to aggregate that data and make decisions through a dashboard on that, I’m assuming?

Yes. We provide a map-based dashboard where the incident commander can actually see exactly where everything is. This is also important to understand why AI becomes important. When we have 50 fire engines, so you’re talking about one IoT device. Think of 50 fire engines. Each of them have multiple iot devices which are all going into cloud and there is so much data and now I suddenly give a bunch of graphs to someone to say, “Make a decision.”

50 fire engines means talking to multiple IoT devices. By connecting them all into one cloud, handling a lot of data can become more convenient.

I imagine that in those cases, the flow meter is on the hose itself, so it’s not something that would be stuck necessarily on the fire hydrant or is it on the fire hydrant as well?

We have flow meters which can be on the hose, but these are in the fire engine on the inlet side and the discharge side, so that’s our Fluid IQ technology that we’re launching. It measures the flow rate and pressure of hydrant, so it knows exactly the state of the hydrant. There are also apis which provide the data on which hydrant is connected to which zone and so on and so forth. There are other contextual information on GIS, like what kind of landscape is there, what kind of weather is there, what kind of wind is happening.

The Costs Of Smarter Fire Defense

You have your grants from the NSF. Is the government of California or other states or the federal government setting contracts with you to help put this in technology into deployment? How’s it getting out there?

We have been selling our product for the last few years. We started selling in 2023, sold to 10 departments in California who were our early adopters and we have grown to where we’re getting close to 2,000 departments globally, not just in the US. We have customers in Canada, we have customers in South America, in Europe, the Middle East and so we are generating our own revenue. Again, we are growing faster and we’re building this very high-tech thing, so we do raise money from venture capital.

We closed our Series A in December 2025, which was a $20 million round. We are planning to do our Series B in 2026. The goal is to continue investing and continue building these technologies, which can help conserve water, which can help improve what I say is like our homeland safety, like the safety of our communities. That’s how we get funded.

Ultimately, though, it is coming out of taxpayers ‘ money because fire departments are paid through taxes.

Let’s take a simple example of nozzles. They are using nozzles anyway. They replace nozzles every year on certain fire engines or whenever it’s the replacement cycle. Now, the existing nozzles, like a smoothbore nozzle, will waste a lot of water. It needs a lot of training. There are a lot of invisible costs associated with it. Whereas what HEN nozzles does, it is the same budget, similar budget. You’re buying a HEN nozzle, but we can save water, you can it’s easier to train with. There are nuances which are kept into mind while developing it like fire ground operations are complicated. How can we make sure people can get used to it really fast? Those things are actually cost-saving to taxpayers as well.

It saves them time and money in some capacity, so it would essentially cover its cost. You’re getting integrated as part of their typical replacement cycle, so it’s not like it’s a huge additional outlay of cash. That’s great to know because there are very few things that seem to be great news on this side of the climate challenge. Warming temperatures, less water, more fire, everything seems to be getting more costly. You mentioned the fact that in California, it’s harder to get fire insurance.

Many of my friends had their fire policies dropped after the most recent fires and had challenges getting new policies. If you live in this community, in a community affected by fire, you likely also know that the insurance companies are allowed to increase their premiums by, I think the average has been 32.5% each year for the last four years. If you imagine that, your costs are going up by more than 30% every year insofar as your fire insurance. When I moved into the home I’m in in 2009, which I own, my first bill was $1,200 for the year, $100 a month. Not an incredible extra expense. My most recent one was $4,500.

That is still on State Farm. I have friends who are only able to get the California option and their prices are almost double for the same value home. If you understand that, the costs of home ownership go up, the costs of rent go up because guess what? That excrement rolls downhill. If you’re paying rent, you may have seen your rent rise a lot in California in these affected communities, simply because the insurance costs are so much higher now.

There are health impacts. The push for me to do something about it was during COVID time and during California so remember the worst fires we had ever was when we had the worst pandemic of our times, like we were all struggling to find masks because of COVID and we can’t find and then the smoke was just making it so hard to breathe and at least here in Northern California, it was really bad. Imagine all that smoke, it’s just staying in the lungs.

We don’t see it right now like “I’m fine after one year,” but it is forever in the lungs and we have to do something about it. That was a big push for me as well. I had a daughter, she was like 4 or 5 years at that point. For me, I did not want her to grow in a place where we don’t have clean air, clean water. I think those are fundamental human rights. We should have clean air and clean water. Wildfires are one of the biggest risks to those.

We should have clean air and clean water. Wildfires are one of the biggest risks to those.

Now we’re even hearing about wildfires that are raging up into Canada. It’s moving North. The problems are moving North and they’re moving inland. We’ve got to figure out a better way to tackle this challenge and part of the challenge is that we have densely populated areas and fire hops over freeways. We used to consider these things fire breaks, but now you get a piece of ash drifting in the sky, even as far as a mile or so. If it’s still burning as an ember, it can light a fire. That is how these fires spread.

Get Int Touch With HEN Technologies

I wonder if there is any hopeful news that you can share that’s perhaps brand new for your company, or if there are any particular tools that you want to direct the audience to, just so that they can learn more about this and stay abreast of developments from the technology side that can support our challenges with fire.

Please follow HEN Technologies. We are on social media. We have a website, we have launched our what we call Masterstream products, which are IoT-enabled. We call it IQ-enabled products. We are launching our pump control system, the smart pump control system, which I mentioned, and there is a big conference in Indianapolis for firefighters called FDIC.

We will have our prototype AI-powered incident command system there on display and we’ll share videos on our social media channels, on YouTube. Please follow and like, and we like to get feedback from the community because in the end what we are doing is to make our community safer and I think it can only be done if we all participate and we all care about fixing this problem.

Do you think that there’s a particular mindset shift that we need in order to be ready? What would you say that you hope people take away from this conversation as it relates?

I think climate change sneaks on us very slowly. It’s like if I eat a candy every day, it will not show right away, but it’s sneaking up on my health. Similarly, that’s happening with climate change. We all have to be aware of things that might happen in 10 years and start preparing using technology to address those risks so that in 10 years, we are safer than we are right now, not in a worse situation. That’s the mantra I live by. I have an eleven-year-old daughter now. I want to make sure that when she grows up, she is in California which is not threatened by wildfire.

Would that become the reality? I really hope it does. This is my home. I live in Santa Cruz County. I love it here and I don’t want to leave. We have to create a mitigation that makes sense for us in our space. That means ensuring we have a defensible line around our property that trees aren’t too close, things like that. We live in suburbia and fire drifts from structure to structure.

If there’s anything that I would take from this, it’s a hope that my local community invests in a platform like HEN Technologies so that we’re better protected and that our firefighters can use the resources they have available the most effectively to reduce harm the most. Thank you so much for joining me. I do want to say that I appreciate all the hard work that goes into that back-end technology.

Without it, we don’t see progress and I know that sometimes, the unsung heroes like yourselves don’t get as much airtime as perhaps they should. I’m so glad that you joined me here and I hope that we helped our audience learn a little bit more about what the future holds for fire mitigation. Do you have any closing words you’d like to share?

Thank you for having me here. You’re absolutely right. We want people to be aware of the problem and we want people to be aware of that there is a potential pathway forward. It’s really awesome talking to you.

Thank you so much, Sunny.

Thank you.

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Discussion Wrap-up And Closing Words

To learn more about Sunny Sethi and the work happening at HEN Technologies, visit the links that we provide. If this conversation about climate-driven disasters resonates with you, stay tuned for our next episode. I’ll be speaking with the documentary filmmaker George Siegel, founder of Move the World Films. His investigative films, The Last House Standing and Built to Last: Buyer Beware, expose the hidden risks of how we build homes. We alluded to some of that in this episode, some of the problems with how we construct homes.

You’ll learn about what happens when the decisions we make in how we build collide with challenges like hurricanes, storms, and other climate realities like fire. Our conversation will focus on what communities in Florida and other coastal regions need to understand about building safer homes and surviving increasingly powerful hurricanes.

Care More Be Better is a proud supporter of our cause partner, Prescott College. They’re helping cultivate the next generation of leaders who are working toward ecological resilience and social justice. Until next time, remember, when we care more, we can build smarter systems, stronger communities, and even a more resilient fire-safe future. Together, we can even strengthen the places we call home so that they can endure whatever storms may come, climate-related or otherwise. Thank you.

Important Links

• A Resilient Approach to Forest Fire
• HEN Technologies
• HEN Technologies on YouTube
• HEN Nozzles on Facebook
• HEN Nozzles on Instagram
• Sunny Sethi on LinkedIn