how to make flutterfire to find locally (not global scope) installed firebase-cli

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1, I've installed the "firebase-tools": "^11.15.0" in a local node project. I'm able to login by running firebase commands there.
2. I've installed the flutterfire cli to by running dart pub global activate flutterfire_cli
3. The problem with flutterfire cli is, it does not recognize locally installed firebase-tools

❯ flutterfire configure
i Found 0 Firebase projects.
FirebaseCommandException: An error occured on the Firebase CLI when attempting to run a command.
COMMAND: firebase --version
ERROR: The FlutterFire CLI currently requires the official Firebase CLI to also be installed, see https://firebase.google.com/docs/cli#install_the_firebase_cli for
 how to install it.

4. Is there any way, make flutterfire find firebase-cli (local)
5. OR , why is it necessary to install firebase-cli globally ?
   Thanks!