00:00At the news overseas, first responders are being provided the eyes and ears they need in perilous situations in hazardous environments by a Seattle startup and drone-making company.
00:10VUAC's Natasha Moskovaya tells us more.
00:22This drone can break a window to fly inside a building in hazardous conditions,
00:26navigate and create a 3D map of the environment without use of GPS,
00:31and establish two-way communications with survivors of a natural disaster or attackers in the case of a hostage crisis.
00:38If it falls on the ground upside down, it can turtle, flip upright and launch itself up in the air.
00:44A Seattle startup is aiming to provide drones for first responders.
00:48The company has already deployed its Lemur-2 model drone with several law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
00:54Long term, we're really interested in this idea of making the police helicopter obsolete
00:59and using drones to respond to all 911 calls in seconds.
01:03Use drones to deliver Narcan, ADs, EpiPens,
01:09give firefighters a live thermal imaging view of a structure fire before they even arrive on scene,
01:14like tell police if what that person is holding is a lighter or a gun before they show up.
01:19Development, prototyping and manufacturing of the drones all take place in the same building in Seattle.
01:26The company doesn't have the luxury of procuring cheap components from other countries.
01:30The entire global supply chain for drone components is really based out of a single city,
01:36which is Shenzhen, China.
01:37We're NDA compliant, which means that we don't utilize any electronics,
01:42any silicon from China, Russia, Iran, other countries on an entity list.
01:47We've had to sort of build a domestic supply chain for all of the componentry inside of this bird.
01:54Brings drones started as indoor devices,
01:57but the company enhanced their outdoor capabilities
01:59after the drones were used for reconnaissance and rescue missions in Ukraine
02:03and after the 2023 earthquake in Turkey.
02:07Natasha Mosgovaev, UA News, Seattle, Washington.
