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Welcome aboard, I am located in North Central WA. Okanogan.

BigA107. In your SAR missions, are you using just FPV or videos to check out areas?. What kind of ground cover are you searching in?

Jammer, I would love to hear more of your ideas on more ways we could help the Fire districts. This is all new for us in NC Wash, or for the whole state. Our Sen Cantwell has proposed legislation to require the FS to use GPS in fire apparatuses, which I have wondered for years why if the...

Jammer,, Do do you use a mapping App? Do you map out for WF urban interface? We have areas in our district that should be mapped out, but cover a large area. safe and "measured" integration, that is a good line, I'll have to remember that.

Okanogan county Washington state

its so good to hear from folks who have experience in this area. Would you mind sharing your experience? Like what kind of UAS was used and what lessons learned. What was the mission? and what problems were encountered.

I know this using UAVs on fires is a relative new concept and is not accepted as standard practice yet. I think its the wave of the future tho and will become common practice, hopefully soon. Its a no brainier that much more "SITUATIONAL AWARENESS" there will be with a UAV safely in the air...

A fire fighter here will be in communication with ops, IC,fire chief and will know when air ops is going on. I know lots of what ifs, but i know it all can be worked out, Crap one drone today has more computing power then the moon landings. We have situations where heavy smoke will cover half...

Well welcome. is it fire season for you? A new volunteer FF? well good for you, you are with a group of volunteer FF worldwide that give thousands of hours FREE to fight fires. Learn all you can. be safe, remember situational awareness ))) How are your UAVS rules on wild-land fires there?

yes indeed your experience shows, Wow 1959)) didn't they beat out flames with wet gunny sacks and pine bows back then? You have seen a lot of changes. So much can be learned from an aerial camera on fires and be able to move with the FFs. and help protect lives. I am interested in IA also...

Well good luck, let us know how it goes and what you learned, IMO FF safety is the most important. Small local volunteer fire districts can use this technology to help them with minimal costs. I know its going to take time to get us integrated into the FF services. Just the way it is.

Thats a good thing they are thinking about it, I Have not heard anything from our county folks yet, but hopefully I can help them along with the process. Its winter time here snow, on the ground, good time to plan next fire season out.

I am doing it on my own right now, I am a volunteer FF for a rural FD. Also i am the first drone business in my county and drones on fires have been a no no. I am working on finding out all the in and outs of doing it. I have a few ideas on the use on fires and want to see what other folks...

Thank you for the welcome, still trying to figure out how to work these forums. I hope to be able to fly on this years wildfires, So many advantages to having a EYE in the sky. Just being able to spot lightning strike areas for fires starts would be a big help for us trying to get initial attack...