City turns to hackers to quell house fires

Hackers in Louisville, Kentucky, worked with the city to create CASPER, a wireless device that listens for smoke detectors in abandoned buildings and sends text messages to let authorities know there could be a fire.

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this is my investment this is where we

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contender

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well we're going to stay until we die

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there are about 8,400 vacant properties

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in the city of Louisville Kentucky and

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they can cause problems for homeowners

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like George and Gail Drummond who lived

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next door to an abandoned house I went

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around to the back and i bought it up

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because they had turn it off now m