Washington wildfire season officially started this weekend and the Spokane Fire Department is preparing by adding three new drones to the team in June. Spokane will become the only city in the Northwest to use drones. The drones will be used for specific, important purposes. On April 12, rescuers scrambled to save a suicidal man from the banks of the Spokane River. Tedious time and effort was spent locating this man, something that firefighters say would not have been the case if they had a drone.