‘Wildfires are kind of like cancer’: Laguna Canyon is test site for O.C. teen’s system to detect small blazes

Since 2018, when Ryan Honary of Newport Beach entered a fifth-grade science project in hopes of demonstrating how early warning systems might prevent wildfire tragedies, he has been transforming a temperature sensor on a circuit board he designed for that project into a system that could greatly help the Orange County Fire Authority and other agencies in our state and beyond.