VIDEO: When lightning strikes in the summer, the concern for wildfires heightens. Sometimes detection of the fires is more challenging because witnesses aren't always around. A quick response is key to containing a wildfire quickly. That's why the Oregon Department of Forestry, ODF, says cameras in the forest come in handy when detecting a wildfire. “It’s a great resource for us it allows us to get to these fires quicker,” Marcus Kauffman with ODF says. He says six cameras can be found in Lane County and about twice as many in Douglas County, since they're operated by the Douglas Forest Protective Association. Kauffman says ODF uses the camera feed to help find locations of wildfires, which is especially helpful after a lightning storm. “We go and chase down every single smoke, but we don't have enough people when we get thirty lightning strikes, so we send people to the ones we know we can find, and then we use the detection system to identify the other remaining smokes,” Kauffman says.