Editor’s note: This is the second in a multi-part series The Standard-Journal will be running on issues facing rural volunteer fire departments. The stories are made possible by a $7,000
Emergency service providers in Pennsylvania have pooled their resources in order to provide drone and unmanned services to other agencies upon request. The task force is dispatched as if they are responding with a firetruck.
Increasingly, first responders are using drones to assist firefighters on structure fires, scanning interiors for heat signatures and flames hidden in walls a