COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– As Southern Colorado braces for more extreme heat, the Colorado Springs Fire Department is taking proactive steps to prevent wildfires. One of their newest tools? Drones.
KRDO13 spoke with one of the department’s drone pilots, Eric Ruettinger, to learn more about the upcoming program.
“We have a lot of areas around town that have a lot of vegetation that are kind of hard to get to,” Ruettinger said. “The plan is to use these drones to quickly fly over high-risk areas and make sure everything’s okay.”…