Hello from Pittsburg, California

Hello from Pittsburg, California.

I'm Samer. I live in Contra Costa County, at the edge of the East Bay hills — dry grass, hot wind, and a fire season that gets longer every year. I'm a renter in town, but my work is out on other people's land.

I'm the founder of Protecting Vision. We're building and field-testing a wildfire defense system for homes and farms that works on its own — because the pattern in every fire here is the same: the house is empty when it matters. I met a woman who lost the home she'd lived in for 33 years in about twelve minutes, with nobody there. That's the problem I work on.

I'm here because the people on this forum understand things I need to understand better: water systems that have to work on their own, off-grid power, and what it actually takes to look after land you can't watch every day.

Glad to be here. I'll mostly be reading and asking questions.