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The Future of Firefighting begins with Drones

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Technology you might have in your home right now is keeping local firefighters safe. Polk County Fire Rescue started its drone program with one drone and one drone pilot back in September. In November, they were key to battling the Lasso Lane mulch and wood pellet fires. "The thing with the mulch pile is, you can't always see where the heat is, where the fire is, it's deep down inside that pile. So the FLIR camera on the drone helped us locate where the hot spots were because it can see through the mulch and the piles," Chris Jonckheer with Polk County Fire Rescue explained.

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Technology you might have in your home right now is keeping local firefighters safe. Polk County Fire Rescue started its drone program with one drone and one drone pilot back in September. In November, they were key to battling the Lasso Lane mulch and wood pellet fires. "The thing with the mulch pile is, you can't always see where the heat is, where the fire is, it's deep down inside that pile. So the FLIR camera on the drone helped us locate where the hot spots were because it can see through the mulch and the piles,"

María Mor's curator insight, September 17, 2020 9:52 AM
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Walmart begins Drone Delivery Tests

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Walmart announced that it will start testing out a drone delivery service for grocery and household products in the U.S. as it looks to expand delivery options.



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Walmart announced that it will start testing out a drone delivery service for grocery and household products in the U.S. as it looks to expand delivery options.

John Smith's curator insight, September 11, 2020 10:33 AM
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Why does this seem dumb to me?  How does Walmart prevent people from stealing the deliveries?  What about the weather?  Job displacement for humans? What happens when people start shooting them down for fun.  There are so many variables to this project that it makes you wonder why this needs to be done in the first place.  It also seems that this is how our culture is headed for more surveillance.