🌱 UCSD Software Aids Firefighters + Aedes🦟Mosquitos + Latina Leaders

Hello, friends. It's me, Bettyann Pernice, your host of the San Diego Daily — back in your inbox📥 with what's happening in town these days:

• UCSD Software Aids🚒Firefighters
• Aedes🦟Mosquitos
• Latina🦸‍♀️Leaders

First, today's weather:

Some low clouds, then sun.🌤️ High: 77, Low: 65.

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Here are three of the top stories in San Diego today:

1. A group of UCSD researchers have helped fight over one thousand🔥fires this year. No, they are not firefighters. They are researchers working with a real-time fire modeling and predictions software program to help👨‍🚒firefighters. Called WIFIRE, the program is part of the Fire Integrated Real-Time Intelligence System (FIRIS). The system gathers information about wildfire using infrared cameras and data from firefighters. WIFIRE crunches the information and within five minutes reports back to the firefighters in the field. “I’m super proud of what we’ve done,” smiled Jessica Block, Executive Director of WIFIRE. “So that firefighters can know exactly where the fire is and where it’s going,” said Block. “We respond to every vegetation fire that begins in the State of California. It’s pretty unusual for an academic group to be a part of a program like this,” Block said. “It’s a real altruistic program with good people that are actually making a difference and learning together how to make this process better over time.” To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (NBC San Diego)
2. It’s a lovely day in San Diego. You decide to go outside and do some gardening. Then Ouch! A mosquito🦟bite! It’s annoying and itchy, and it can transmit a disease. We are experiencing an Aedes Mosquitos Plague. "Anything that can hold water could be a breeding ground for the mosquitos," Arugay said. "A person could have 25 planters in their backyards and every single saucer could hold these mosquitos." Aedes mosquitos have been known to carry yellow fever and the Zika virus, there has been no transmission of these diseases recorded. It is likely that Aedes mosquitos are flourishing in your backyard. Take a look around your property. Check out your empty plant pots, saucers, children’s toys, etc. Stop the bite! To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (Patch)
3. Its purpose is to help🦸‍♀️Latinas escalate to where they want to go. It is a Mexican American women’s organization called MANA. “This program is not for a woman that doesn't know what she wants. She's in a professional career already. She needs to keep going up, really improving, escalating where she wants to go,” she said. “The fact that so often Latinas are really the first in their families to move forward, we really don't have those role models and especially in the professional job fields, she said. "And our attempt to address this problem was through this wonderful leadership program." To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV)

Today in San Diego:

• Get Started with Your Android Phone — San Diego Oasis. (10 a.m.)
• Baby👶Storytime — Logan Heights Branch Library. (11 a.m.)
• Mindful Meditation — Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center. (1 p.m.)
• Mah Jong Club — Carmel Valley Branch Library. (1 p.m.)
• DO YOUR📖HOMEWORK @ THE LIBRARY — Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center. (3 p.m.)
• LEGO Power Hour — Mission Hills Branch Library. (3:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• San Diego Zoo: "Red-y or not, here's your shot at guessing who's who in our🐼 panda crew. Think you know? Comment below which picture belongs to Clark, Kola, and Lucas. 📷: Kola photo courtesy of Penny Hyde #International #RedPandaDay #SanDiegoZoo" (San Diego Zoo via Instagram)
• San Diego Humane Society: "It's true, Scott's splashing and playing is absolutely adorable, but friends, there's much more to this🐕doggie than meets the eye! We first met this beautiful, brindled boy in September 2021, and are in awe of how far he's come!" (San Diego Humane Society via Facebook)
• San Diego Central Library: "#OdiTheCoyote is taking a quiet moment this morning to re-read Toni Morrison's classic, "The Bluest Eye." Odi has read all of Morrison's novels and was happy to nab a copy in Large🖨️Print from the OliverMcMillan I CAN! Center.⁠ (San Diego Central Library via Facebook)
• Feeding San Diego: "We are grateful to the Albertsons Companies Foundation for providing Feeding San Diego with a $50,000 Nourishing Neighbors grant to support our efforts to connect qualified members of the community with food🥫resources through CalFresh." (Feeding San Diego via Facebook)
• Library Foundation SD: "This year’s San Diego Art Prize Exhibition is on display NOW at San Diego Central Library 🙌! . . Award-winning pieces by local artists, Alida Cervantes, Angélica Escoto, Carlos Castro Arias and Cog•nate Collective are now OPEN TO THE PUBLIC." (Library Foundation SD via Facebook)

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You're officially in the loop for today. I'll see you soon!

— Bettyann Pernice

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