Cal Fire is asking drone operators to keep their eyes in the sky grounded during wildfires after a drone came dangerously close to a firefighting helicopter during the Steele Fire on Wednesday.
“It was close enough to make the pilots very uneasy in that situation and when it’s communicated to us, we shut down all the operations and all the firefighting aircraft leave,” Mitchell Hubbard, a Cal Fire air tactical supervisor, told ABC 10News Thursday in an interview at the Ramona Air Attack Base.
Hubbard said the drone flew alarmingly close to a Cal Fire helicopter, forcing air operations to stop immediately…