Hobby drone blamed for grounding firefighting fleet in California

The benefits of access are so high that you can’t stay away from a wildfire with your drone? While technical solutions can be interesting, staying the hell away is far simpler.
@cstatman:

we have become a generation of risk averse pussies

No. Risk management is exactly what the firefighters are concerned with. The need to go play over a wildfire with a drone makes this sound far more like a generation of self absorbed pricks.

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