WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — It may have already started in your neighborhood: fireworks season.
This Fourth of July holiday weekend, the Wheat Ridge Police Department will use drones to respond to certain fireworks complaints.
“Let’s say if we get a call for service and a fireworks complaint in an area that’s harder to get to, maybe out in an open field or perhaps along the Clear Creek — we have a greenbelt that runs to the north side of Wheat Ridge — that could be a good opportunity to send a drone team over there,” said Wheat Ridge PD public information officer Alex Rose. “We may also just implement it as kind of an overwatcher, is what we call it. So just have the drone go straight up, zoom out, and use that perspective to kind of guide our officers on the ground,” said Rose…