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U S House passes Utah Rep John Curtis bill to study impact of drones on wildfire suppression | Government and Politics
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Curtis gets bipartisan AIR safety bill passed in the US House Created: 10 December 2020
Drones flown in a wildfire suppression area create additional hazards to fire fighting personne; and increase risk to structures and lives on the ground. When people fly drones into the fire fighting area, fire manager must ground their own drones and helicopters until the air space is clear.
Representative John Curtis, the Deputy Republican Leader of the National Parks, Forest, and Public Lands Subcommittee spoke on the floor today on behalf of his bipartisan bill, H.R. 5040, the
Aerial Incursion Repercussion (AIR) Safety Act.
Introduced last year with Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA), Senator Cortez-Masto (D-NV), and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), the AIR Safety Act raises awareness on issues interfering with wildfire fighting by directing the Bureau of Land Management, USDA Forest Service, and Federal Aviation Administration to work with their State forestry partners to cond
Getting to the remote island in the Great Salt Lake will be the thing, though.
Visitors âjust need to take the necessary precautions and be safe. Itâs not easily accessible,â Laura Vernon, spokesperson for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, or FFSL, said Wednesday.
Fremont Island in the Great Salt Lake is shown in this undated photo. Photo supplied, Charles Uibel/Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands
News emerged last month that the Palladium Foundation of Salt Lake City, headed by conservationist Jennifer Speers, had bought the island from its private owner. Last Friday, Palladium donated the island to the FFSL, part of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, paving the way to its opening to the public. The Nature Conservancy, or TNC, a global conservation group, holds a conservation easement on the island that will prevent development there in perpetuity, according to a statement on the transaction iss