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Can a Beacon Box Save Your Neighborhood From Wildfire with Jim Kniss | Rebuild:LA Episode 016

Hosted By Cameron Barrett  |  March 14, 2025

Jim Kniss makes his living flying over wildfires, making GIS and infrared maps for firefighters. It’s all pretty cutting edge technology. But what he’s most passionate about is a little more old school. He’s working to get Beacon Boxes…
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More fire Beacon Boxes installed in Malibu to assist with fire response |
The Malibu Times

By Samantha Bravo  |  August 23, 2022

This past week, the city completed the installation of the first round of Beacon Boxes…
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Beacon Boxes Point the Way in Agoura | The Acorn

By Scott Steepleton  |  August 12, 2022

Those red boxes that have popped up in different locations around Agoura Hills could help save a life in the event of another disaster…
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First Beacon Box Installed in Malibu | The Malibu Times

By Judy Abel  |  March 11, 2022
Another tool to help fight fires has debuted in Malibu. The city’s first Beacon Box was just installed in Big Rock…
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City Adds Infrastructural Defenses Against Wildfire | The Malibu Times

By Genevieve Finn  | February 20, 2021

Malibu is slowly bouncing back from the devastating 2018 Woolsey Fire…
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Beacon Boxes Popping Up Around Town: What Are They? | Mayor’s Newsletter

By Deborah Klein Lopez  |  July 1, 2022

You may have noticed a new public safety feature pop up in Agoura Hills over the past few weeks. Bright red weatherproof boxes…
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