The artificial intelligence behind Alert California is interpreting camera footage so firefighters can predict how a column of smoke will grow into a wildfire.

LEX 18 contacted 22 police departments in our viewing area with jurisdictions larger than 5,000 people to ask whether or not their officers use body cameras.

Lawmakers are considering it, and one school district already told WMSV4 Investigator Courtney Allen that they’d put them in all classrooms if funding gets approved.