> Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández is 16 years old and has an idea no one else had.

...meanwhile, some folks at George Mason University were doing this back in 2015[1]:

> The fire extinguisher uses low-frequency sound waves to douse a blaze. Engineering seniors Viet Tran and Seth Robertson now hold a preliminary patent application for their potentially revolutionizing device.

[]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10569115B2/en

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPVQMZ4ikvM

US military showed a version in 2012 [1], and there is a DARPA report[2]

That said, it's a solid student project. I'm sure she'll do well at university.

[1]: https://www.ifsecglobal.com/uncategorized/soundwaves-a-new-p...

[2]: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20...

It’s frustrating that the site wrote that. I’d wager a taco that she never made that claim.