{"id":90864,"date":"2019-05-17T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/drone-could-help-firefighters"},"modified":"2019-05-17T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:23:37","slug":"drone-could-help-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/drone-could-help-firefighters","title":{"rendered":"Drone Could Help Firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drone Could Help Firefighters By Putting Out Fires\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bm2BVTTir4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Latvian company Aerones created the machine, which \u2014 according to the company \u2014 can fly up to 984 feet, compared to 100-foot-height that firefighter ladders can reach. The drone is fitted with a water hose from a fire truck, and is controlled by a pilot on the ground remotely. However, the drone does suffer from low battery life, providing only 30 minutes flight time from a 90-minute charge. It\u2019s still in development, but Aerones hopes to use the machine for real-life operations soon.<\/p>\n<p>See more from Aerones: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerones.com\/eng\/\">https:\/\/www.aerones.com\/eng\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to\u2019s, gaming, science, digital culture, and more.<\/p>\n<p>TI on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/techinsider\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/techinsider<\/a><br \/> TI on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tech_insider\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tech_insider\/<\/a><br \/> TI on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/techinsider\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/techinsider<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bm2BVTTir4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvian company Aerones created the machine, which \u2014 according to the company \u2014 can fly up to 984 feet, compared to 100-foot-height that firefighter ladders can reach. The drone is fitted with a water hose from a fire truck, and is controlled by a pilot on the ground remotely. However, the drone does suffer from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}