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Paws Patrol LV thermal drone donation for animal rescue searches in Las Vegas
Search & Rescue

Paws Patrol LV Gets Two Thermal Drones After Sky Knockdown

A Montana hotel owner donated two thermal drones to Paws Patrol LV after people in a Las Vegas wash knocked the animal rescue group's $7,000 drone out of the sky during a search for an injured dog. The dog remains missing.

James City County AED delivery drone used in the Virginia pilot
Drone as First Responder

James City County Flies Virginia's First AED Drone Trial

James City County, Virginia will begin dispatching AED-carrying drones to suspected cardiac arrest calls on August 1, starting a five-mile pilot around Fire Station 1 in Toano. The Duke- and VCU-led RESTORe-CARE study is expanding from North Carolina into a second live U.S. county program.

Duke Health drone carrying an AED payload during a live 911 response study
AED

Duke Health Drones Now Fly AEDs To Real 911 Calls

Duke Health researchers are dispatching AED-carrying drones to live 911 cardiac arrest calls in North Carolina, testing whether autonomous delivery can beat ambulances by the minutes that decide survival.

Santa Barbara County Fire crews searching the shoreline at Haskell Beach in Goleta, California.
DJI

DJI Matrice 30 drone helps rescue surfer swept offshore in California

A surf session off the California coast nearly turned tragic, but a lobster trap buoy and a DJI Matrice 30 drone helped write a very different ending, as reported by FOX WEATHER. High surf pulls surfer away from shore The incident happened Friday at Haskell Beach in Goleta, California, where a surfer in his 20s…

Windracers ULTRA MK2 | Credits: IDRW.org
Drones for Good

How Windracers’ ULTRA MK2 Drone Will Save Lives in Madagascar

Windracers’ ULTRA MK2 drone is headed to Madagascar on a World Food Programme (WFP) contract, focused on getting supplies to challenging locations that would otherwise take hours, if not days to reach. Madagascar is the kind of environment that exposes every weak link in a supply chain. Cyclones, heavy rains, and seasonal flooding can turn…

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