The Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) was presented with a $15 million check Aug. 27 by California Sen. Dave Min to fund the second phase of ALERTWildfire, a wildfire prevention program. ALERTWildfire is a system of currently 850 remote cameras that tilt, pan, and zoom, as well as other tools that provide firefighters with early confirmation of wildfires across the state. “Phase two of this program, which will be funded by this budget allocation, will provide among other things, an infrared map of fuel concentrations of fire prone areas, which will not only form fuel reduction efforts in our state but will also be critical for deploying first responders trying to put out wildfires, by providing real time assessment of where fires are likely to occur,” Min said. “How we fight fires has to be smarter and especially as we go into drier and drier seasons,” Min said. He said …