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Drone Use in Federal Agency Taking Off

Department of Interior is the poster child for drone growth.

When the utility of drones is recognized, the growth will be huge, as reflected by the use of drones by the Department of the Interior, see Interior Doubled Its Use of Drones in 2018.   

Much of that growth has been in the area of wildfire response and forest management. I expect that they will be experimenting with drones for actual firefighting in the near term.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.