Drones vs. California's wildfires: How they're helping firefighters

Fire departments are turning to drones to help spot dangerous fire conditions from the sky and document the devastating aftermath once the fire has passed through.

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[bryce]

An idea - maybe they can use these things to deliver easy use breathing apparatus kits to people stuck in unburnt floors - to buy them time before rescue teams get to them.

[ultimonx]

god this is so futuristic and cool, I love it!

[Gabriel-bnvo]

that's a great idea to save lives

[mattp.]

This is very cool and a good application of tech to save lives

[samushunter]

Note in 2:50 the guy is using a game controller to operate the drone. So gaming can be useful in other areas of life.

[RunfangChe]

We are also a company to product the fire fighting drones, we know how it is helpful to put out the fire with the drones, especially for the high-rise fire extinguishing and forest fire prevention

[NeTtoMDX]

The california fires were also started via drones. There are videos that show drones spraying flammables.

[virginiabacon]

what a bunch of bull, after they set the fires. They don't even talk about the fires now, no updates. God help these people.

[CraigLang]

The Chinese and Latvians have water bearing drones. Can we please catch up!

[JehovahGod-Room]

Design a big ass water drome that scans the are and wet the grounds.

[GQPshow]

Why are they using this for forest fires today in California and Canada 2022. Where are they??

[php]

I very strongly discourage anyone from flying a drone in an area under threat of a wild fire or if fire bans are in effect. The drones pose a serious collision risk with firefighting aircraft. Drones do get smashed to bits and those bits do get sucked into turbine engines resulting a engine failure of the aircraft. PLEASE pay attention to the news and fire bans and don't fly your drone if you are not part of a registered emergency incident command operation staffed by professional drone pilots. IF YOUR DRONE FLIES, WE ARE GROUNDED.

[loganholmes]

Why don’t they just put the fires out?

[luluparl]

They were used to put the fire there in the first place .. then the same company can sale the ones to fight the fire 😏🙄

[-ny]

So how is it helpful to instead of putting out the fires they just watch them until they go out?

[luciusmalfoy]

IF THEY USE WATER FROM THE SEA AND BUILD BIG PIPES. INTO STRATEGIC ZONES . THOSE FIRES WILL NEVER SPREAD LIKE THAT. using drones its not enough.

[ianmcaulay]

There's houses burnt to nothing. But no trees Even around to set light to the houses. Madness. Some one playing sim city

[jmfr]

It's so obvious, all the houses are burned except for the trees and roads...isn't that strange

[critie]

now, equip these bad bois or build bigger drones that are un manned with tanks of got game against fires.

[SR-gt]

What is needed is 1000 drones which could have Dyson air blowers which could direct the burn into a circle ⭕ so it creates a burn out of 🔥 fuel. Then other drones could have pruners which would create a trimmed fire barrier. Also have fire foam agents onboard. This could be controlled by a central wireless base so all drones are insink. Bye bye bye