Technology you might have in your home right now is keeping local firefighters safe. Polk County Fire Rescue started its drone program with one drone and one drone pilot back in September. In November, they were key to battling the Lasso Lane mulch and wood pellet fires. "The thing with the mulch pile is, you can't always see where the heat is, where the fire is, it's deep down inside that pile. So the FLIR camera on the drone helped us locate where the hot spots were because it can see through the mulch and the piles," Chris Jonckheer with Polk County Fire Rescue explained.

The World’s First Logistics Operation with a Drone to an Offshore Installation.

New Drone Camera Technology Auto Target Tracking



Digital Eagle develops the VTOL Drone with infrared thermal camera. The camera is with 30x zoom and auto tracking function. It's thermal lens is 25mm which can bring a good thermal image both day and night.

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Walmart announced that it will start testing out a drone delivery service for grocery and household products in the U.S. as it looks to expand delivery options.



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Flying Coronavirus-killer: How this Drone fights COVID-19



The Aertos 120-UVC drone from Digital Aerolus is equipped with ultraviolet lights to disinfect places that are at high risk of COVID-19 exposure. Credit CNET

How Drones could change Future of Fighting Wildfires Dangerous conditions in California are forcing some departments to look for alternative ways to combat raging wildfires. The Mendocino Park Fire Department is using drones to go where humans can't. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joined CBSN to