A group of three people with a shared concern grew to an online community of about 320 offering donations to hire a company using long-range drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras as an early warning system to catch wildfires before they spread.
Flames burn a forest during wildfires near the village of Sykorrahi, near Alexandroupolis town, in the northeastern Evros region, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. The nightmare repeats itself every year: A towering wall of flames devours forests, farmland and homes, forcing animals and people to flee for their lives.
"The first few minutes are the most crucial for a fire," said Giorgos Dertilis, who heads the local volunteer firefighting unit. "At the start it's easier to put out the fire. The more the minutes go by, the harder our job becomes." "The handler called us, we saw the smoke, so when we were on our way ... we knew, we were prepared to see a fire," he said. They quickly extinguished the blaze. "It's very important to know what to expect."
The idea came in June 2022, after a wind-whipped wildfire descended on his municipality from a mountain ridge. As they coordinated the emergency response, authorities realized they had a problem. Getting in touch with the drone company, the fire prevention program was born. In the year and a half it's been operational, it's given early warnings for fires 12 times, Konstantellos said.
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