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Police, fire, and search-and-rescue teams putting drones to work when minutes matter.

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Part of Mount Helena was destroyed by fire on Sunday. However, owing to the deployment of civilian, rogue drones, air assaults were temporarily

Haye KestelooAug 30

Police

A vulnerable adolescent was spotted within seconds by a police drone with a thermal camera and was reunited with his family.

Haye KestelooAug 29

Police

The Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) is expanding its drone program and modernizing the equipment to handle more emergency situations.

Haye KestelooAug 26

DJI

An expensive DJI M300 inspection drone from the Dutch company Zero Gravity Drone was shot at with an air rifle by an angry vacationer last week.

Wiebe de JagerAug 22

First Responders

SkyeBrowse developed new tool that enables first responders to capture an accident scene in 3D within minutes. The tool Hyper, first makes a drone

Wiebe de JagerAug 15

Police

During a school photo shoot, a 5-year-old girl was gravely injured by a drone that fell out of the sky. The drone accident happened in China...

Haye KestelooAug 2

Police

A South Korean drone pilot has been sentenced to 8 months in prison for shooting drone nude photos of various men and women in a highrise.

Wiebe de JagerJul 13

Police

A Catskills Division volunteer ambulance service in New York was launching a drone unit for search and rescue purposes, the State Police...

Haye KestelooJul 12

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