The San Bernardino County Fire Protection District (SBCoFD) has entered in a contract with Seneca, a resilience technology and infrastructure company, to deploy a Seneca Strike Team of five AI-powered autonomous suppression aircraft. SBCoFD will be the first fire department in California to train with and deploy Seneca’s system.
The Strike Team includes five autonomous suppression aircraft, a towable Mobile Air Operations Base, and full access to Seneca’s autonomy software. Because the aircraft navigate and coordinate using onboard AI, a single SBCoFD pilot can operate the multiple Seneca aircraft in difficult terrain, allowing SBCoFD to reach dangerous hard-to-reach places even more quickly.
SBCoFD will use the Seneca Strike Team as a force multiplier for its firefighters, engines, and existing aerial resources in situations that were previously unsafe, inefficient, or impossible…