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

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Drones for Good

A Search and Rescue drone was used to find stranded hikers in the dark in Weber Country, Utah. The pair had wondered off-trail by accident

Haye KestelooApr 6

Drones for Good

A police drone helps to find a missing 12-year old boy, who had disappeared overnight. Police officers had started their search

Haye KestelooApr 6

Search & Rescue

Last week, a dog that had been missing for 6 days was found by a drone team on a steep cliff in the Swiss Alps, near Levron / Val de Bagnes.

Haye KestelooApr 5

Coronavirus

In Maryland, the Calvert County Sheriff's Office puts DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise drones to use during the Coronavirus outbreak. Calvert County...

Haye KestelooApr 3

Coronavirus

Police around the world started to use drones to warn the public of the highly contagious Coronavirus. Examples in China, France, Spain...

Haye KestelooApr 1

Coronavirus

DJI committed 100 drones to 40 police, fire & public safety agencies in 21 states as part of the US Disaster Relief Program to fight COVID-19.

Haye KestelooApr 1

Firefighters

The Minnesota Interagency Fire Center and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources asks people to not use their drones near wildfires.

Haye KestelooApr 1

Drones for Good

A drone with a thermal camera locates a missing 73-year-old man suffering from hypothermia in New Jersey woods. The man Califon man who...

Haye KestelooApr 1

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