New York City firefighters used a drone to monitor a four-alarm fire<\/a> to keep an eye on the roof of the apartment building as it was feared that the building would collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Deputy Assistant Fire Chief stated that “The roof started to fail and we had a lot of great radio reports, but that\u2019s only verbal, so\u00a0with the drone we had good visual pictures<\/strong>\u00a0and it really helped us make decisions to put this fire out and keep our members safe.” With a drone better visual information could be gathered allowing for the best decisions to be made, giving great reassurance to firefighters entering the blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWith better scene monitoring more accurate assessment of burning structures with a drone can be done to have a better understanding of the status of the fire<\/strong> before firefighters are even ready to enter the blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPayload drop systems can be easily attached to a drone to\u00a0allow it to drop off various equipment<\/strong>. The weight of the payload varies from drone to drone but typically with a 2-pound payload, a variety of safety equipment can be attached to the drone.\u00a0Typical payloads include<\/strong>\u00a0life preservers, guide safety lines, 2-way radios, first aid kits, and other medical supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLife Preserves can be extremely helpful for a distressed swimmer or for capsized boats. Guide safety lines can be dropped so that rescue officials can help guide people in hard to reach situations<\/strong> such as being stuck in the middle of a river. Radios can be extremely helpful to provide a quick communication device between stranded people and rescue teams in remote areas. In addition to other payload options drones can be equipped with floodlights which can easily illuminate a dark area making it easier for rescue teams to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThermal (infrared) cameras have the ability to\u00a0see through smoke<\/strong>\u00a0and to view objects emitting energy in complete darkness. These cameras come in different models that vary in refresh rate and resolution allowing the user to buy a solution that fits their need. For energy inspection,\u00a0great resolution and refresh rate is needed to closely monitor temperature changes<\/strong>, however for search and rescue the optics do not have to be as high a grade as people stand out easily against a cold or nighttime environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe use of drones to assist firefighters, rescue operations, and post-disaster officials is the future. Over time we will see a greater implementation of drones into public safety agencies<\/strong> as the benefit they provide cannot be matched. As with all technological advances, people will use it as long as it is easy to use just like computers and cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAs drone batteries get better allowing them to fly for longer and have heavier payloads the faster the adoption will be. A future in which a drone gets autonomously launched from a fire truck<\/strong> when it first arrives on the scene and takes to the skies to analyze the situation and provide real-time feedback to the ground crews is a future that we should all get behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While drones continue to get much smaller, more powerful, and have better payload options, one thing that will stay the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":74658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[82],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":107,"label":"Safety & Security"}],"post_tag":[{"value":82,"label":"commercial uav"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Firefighter-Drones-min-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"DN","author_link":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/author\/dronenodes\/"},"comment_info":4,"category_info":[{"term_id":107,"name":"Safety & Security","slug":"public-safety","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":107,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Drones used in public safety and emergency","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":107,"category_count":2,"category_description":"Drones used in public safety and emergency","cat_name":"Safety & Security","category_nicename":"public-safety","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":82,"name":"commercial uav","slug":"commercial-uav","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":82,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronenodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}