00:00Drones are becoming a game changer in the fight against wildfires and they're doing some of their
00:04most important work at night. While crews face dangerous low visibility conditions on the ground,
00:10CAL FIRE is sending drones into the sky to keep watch. Being able to keep eyes on firefighters that
00:16are engaged in line construction mop-up operations at night when air resources are on the ground,
00:21we're also assigned to help create hotspot maps just to facilitate mop-up happening a little bit
00:26faster and a little bit more efficiently. Using infrared cameras, those drones can spot heat you
00:32can't see, tracking hidden hotspots and mapping them in real time. That means crews can move faster,
00:38target the right areas and stay safer. CAL FIRE now has more than 100 trained drone pilots supporting
00:44wildfire response. When the sun goes down, the drones go up.
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