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With its bright-yellow armored body, grippy tank-like treads, plow nose and water cannon, the Los Angeles Fire Department's latest piece of equipment looks more like a Star Wars sidekick than a firefighting assistant. 
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An autonomous food delivery robot burst into flames on a Berkeley, California sidewalk on Friday. Kiwi, the startup that makes and manages the one hundred-strong fleet of robots, issued a statement to say that the fire was quickly extinguished by a passerby before the city’s fire department arrived and doused the machine in foam.
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A California Air National Guard team is serving as a reconnaissance and surveillance unit for response efforts to the Carr Fire in Northern California, providing up-to-date intelligence as service members and civilian firefighters battle the massive blaze.,
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Recreational drones or Unmanned Aircraft Systems sometimes called UAS have become increasingly popular in the past few years.
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Rhetoric is search of a real problem.
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Drones were reported near the Siphon Creek and Beatton Airport Road fires, near Fort St. John.
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Again, these guys were probably wanting to image the flames. To say that they amount to a justified reason to ground helos is simply messed-up. I have seen helicopters operate near power lines, seen news helicopters operate near water dumps, etc. All of these things are risky and potential hazards. But our professional pilots and firefighters know how to manage these risks. Drones are another example of this. To be grounding management tools int he face of these much great danger/issue needing attention is crazy.
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As of 6am on November 1, the Maria Fire has grown to 8,300 acres with zero percent containment, having and entered some oil fields at night. Two drones wer
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Drone comments on the Maria Fire are at 1:45 in the video
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Jason ReaganJason is a longstanding contributor to DroneLife with an avid interest in all things tech. He focuses on anti-drone technologies and the public safety sector; police, fire, and search and
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The City of Redding has released an interactive 360 degrees aerial map that shows the vast devastation of the Carr Fire. Market Street, Keswick (Courtesy: Redding Geographic Information Systems) Aerial photos were collected as part of a m
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A Maryland man is accused of flying a drone in restricted airspace near the 5-alarm apartment building fire Monday in College Park, nearly crashing the drone into a police helicopter.
Jeff Witteman's insight:
Reminder: Don't send your drone out to investigate a fire, you might endanger search and rescue operations.
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A great example of the type of situation where drone hobbyists increasingly try to fly their platforms and where authorities are pushing back: wildfire i
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Here is a great example of the type of situation where drone hobbyists increasingly try to fly their platforms and where authorities are pushing back: wildfire in the wildlands-urban interface. This situation was the Lake Sherwood Fire in Thousand Oaks, California. The fire broke out around 15:30 on Wednesday, Thursday July 13, 2016. Thousand Oaks is a town with more than 127,000 residents and a very tech savvy community. U.S. Congresswoman Julia Brownley is currently authoring legislation in the House to make such flights punishable by fines of up to $10,000 per incident.
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