Fire season is starting earlier and earlier, and many fear another big fire season that could break more records.
Fire crews are using drones to help stop this cycle of continued mega-fires.
A fire detecting drone spots the smoke, and another drone lifts off, quickly finds the fire and drops chemicals into the flames, putting them out.
It’s a successful test.
But this fire is small, right?
“Every wildfire starts small. If you could only get there fast enough, you have a shot at solving the problem,” explained Maxwell Brodie. Brodie is one of the men behind the Rain System, a network of drones that can spot fires when they are small and put them out or dramatically slow them down until the firefighters can arrive.
Brodie told FOX40 multiple drones can respond to the same fire at once.
“There is a network of these drones throughout a region that all respond to an ignition,” he said.
It’s not a traditional fire fighting tool, but many believe it’s past time to think outside the box.