Weekly Wildfire Update: Southern Area (R8) has 396 New Fires. Lost Hiker Who Started Fire Ordered to Pay $200 a Month for 122 Years. Firefighter Tracking is Here, Implementation Coming.
The Hotshot Wake Up
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The southern area does have some wildfires going on and the fire season has started to kick off down there. There's a renewed call for firefighter tracking and whether it's just folks on the ground aircraft vehicles. Some of these dirigibles or blimps or balloons that we're starting to see over wildfires are up there. They're trying to get 4G connectivity through these balloon systems above wildfires. So you can run multi layered systems. You can run drone tracking systems. You could run heads up displays for pilots. And then we'll talk about this new ruling that took place on the hiker that was charged, or I guess fined $300,000 for lighting a fire because he was
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