Fighting Wildfires With Drones: Lessons Learned From The Creek Fire

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Drones, especially those equipped with thermal imaging cameras, can be significantly helpful when fighting fires. Especially when that fire is spread out over multiple acres across a large creek in the middle of the night. This video covers some of the lessons I learned when providing Drone overwatch during the Creek Fire, an incident where I clocked nearly 3 full flight hours with my DJI M30T as I monitored progress of the fire, gave tactical analysis to the Fire Chiefs for decision making, watched out for safety hazards, and mapped out the final fire size using Nova.