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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThermal video from the rescue released by the Cass County\nSheriff’s Office shows how the drone spotted Chris Fairchild as a bright yellow\ndot in the darkness and guided deputies on the ground to her. “To see that\nlittle yellow dot, knowing that that’s the person you’re looking for, it feels\ngreat,” drone pilot Major Kevin Tieman told a local TV station. Fairchild\nwas exhausted and had lost a shoe but was unharmed when she saw the drone\noverhead: “I kept saying, Come on, I’m here! Come on, I’m here!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fairchild’s rescue was one of several recent drone rescues\naround the world that were recorded on video and helped propel the global count\nabove 500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Split, Croatia, on Sept. 30, the Croatian Mountain Rescue\nService completed rescue #494 when it learned of a man who had threatened to\nkill himself and left home, and used their DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual to find\nhim sitting at the edge of a breakwater. On Sept. 10 in the city of Boao on\nHainan Island, China, rescuers used a DJI drone to find and rescue three surfers\nwho had fallen into the ocean and could not swim to shore, making them the\n488th, 489th and 490th people to be rescued by a drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DJI lists rescues from around the world on the DJI Drone\nRescue Map, which tracks more than 300 incidents when police, firefighters,\nrescue squads and bystanders have used drones to save people from danger since\nthe first known rescue in 2013. Drones have found missing people in darkness,\nhelped rescuers plot paths out of hazardous terrain, brought life preservers to\npeople struggling in water, and delivered supplies to stranded people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Just a few years ago, drones were an experimental\ntechnology for innovators in public safety, and civilians with drones often\nvolunteered to help the professionals in emergencies,” said Romeo\nDurscher, DJI Senior Director of Public Safety Integration. “Today, public\nsafety agencies across the world have adopted drones as a standard piece of\nequipment, and drones save people from peril every few days. It’s an\nastonishing success story for public safety, and for the people who are alive\ntoday because of drones.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 500th rescue occurred in the evening of Oct. 11, 2020 in\nCass County, Missouri, when the sheriff’s office learned a 93-year-old woman\nhad gone for a walk and had not returned after 3-1\/2 hours. After\nunsuccessfully searching for her on the ground, sheriff’s deputies launched\ntheir DJI Matrice 210 drone with a DJI Zenmuse XT2 thermal imaging camera,\nwhich located her in four minutes in complete darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A DJI drone is an amazing product and has allowed us\nto save lives. It is our responsibility to use all available technology and\ntraining to keep the citizens safe. The DJI Matrice 210 and thermal imaging\ntechnology has done that,” Tieman said. The Sheriff’s Office acquired two\nDJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual drones this year, and four deputies are scheduled\nto start flight training this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“With more than 500 people now rescued by drones\noperated under basic rules, we can see how reasonable regulations with low\nbarriers to entry literally save lives, and how useful expanded drone\noperations at night and over people will be when they are permitted at\nscale,” said Brendan Schulman, DJI Vice President of Policy & Legal\nAffairs. “The successful use of drones in emergencies also starkly\nillustrates the crucial benefits to society that are placed in jeopardy when\npolicy proposals seek to restrict or limit access to drone technology, or raise\nthe costs of such equipment to public safety officials.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DJI compiles drone rescues from news stories and social\nmedia posts from authoritative sources such as police departments, fire\ndepartments and volunteer rescue squads. Each one is entered on the Drone\nRescue Map with the location and date of the incident, a brief description, a\nlink to the original story or post, and an easy way to share those incidents\nonline. The map and DJI’s tally do not include incidents when a drone is simply\nused as part of a larger search process; instead, a drone must have directly\nlocated, assisted and\/or rescued a person in peril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DJI encourages public safety agencies to add their stories\nof drone rescues by submitting them using the form at the bottom of the map\npage. DJI asks anyone submitting information about a rescue to respect the\nprivacy rights and expectations of the persons involved, and to not share any\nconfidential or sensitive information about agency operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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