State officials closed the deal last week to add two rare multimission aircraft to Colorado's Firefighting Air Corps, a move that will usher in a new age of tech-savvy firefighting.
New planes could have helped firefighters locate Waldo Canyon fire before it grew
The two PC-12s will be equipped with remote sensing thermal technology designed to see through smoke, work day and night and provide real-time maps to firefighters on the ground. The planes are part of a firefighting software system adopted by the state after the destructive fires along the Front Range in the summers of 2012 and 2013.
"It's a game-changer," said Rocco Snart, acting chief of the division's Wildland Fire Management Section. "This is new in the nation."
For a minute there I thought you were going to say they would use drones with cameras to survey areas. I could see it as a possibility after looking at the link of the drone cameras for the Burro Race you posted. This is so much better, albeit expensive.
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation... One is by sword...The other is by debt." John Adams 1826.
