Justin Jager

As the Department of Interior and the U.S. Forest Service, we've been looking to use drones for several years now and really the technology has finally caught up to where we can efficiently use them on the fire as far as battery life and capacity.

The Maroon Fire posed some unique challenges that there were some big KV power lines running through there that we needed to be able to protect from the fire then also an unexploded ordnance area that we wanted to be able to put fire in but we didn’t want to put firefighters on the ground for obvious reasons.