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Why sound waves may be the next key to fire prevention

A new startup is trying to scale up the idea of putting out fires using inaudible sound waves.

Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Sonic Fire Tech co-founder and CEO Geoff Bruder about how the technology works.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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