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“Holding that tablet was almost surreal—it was hard to believe I actually had a 22,000 lb Hawk under my control.” —Chief Mike Deacon, Air Tactical Group Supervisor, HLCO Rain and Sikorsky collaborated to bring government, fire agency, and investment representatives to observe the advanced technologies enabling autonomous rapid wildfire response. This is what some of those leaders shared with us after commanding a Black Hawk? helicopter flying with Sikorsky’s MATRIX? flight autonomy and Rain mission autonomy to perform multiple autonomous water drops. For more reactions to the joint demonstration of autonomous aerial wildfire response:? ?? watch this video on YouTube https://lnkd.in/gwE7y3zS ?? read an update on our website? https://lnkd.in/gub5jeGB ?? “There’s definitely a space for autonomous aircraft and what Rain is doing.” —Assistant Chief Tim Perkins, Orange County Fire Authority. ??“We need technology like this to stop the fire that is coming from the wildlands, that is moving toward communities in fire prone lands.” —Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, U.S. Fire Administration. ????????“This technology that we used to think of as being on the horizon, it’s here, it’s available, and it’s there for the taking. So we need to give our firefighters the best of what we’ve got.” —Genevieve Biggs, Director, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Wildfire Resilience Initiative. We are indebted to the many people who carved time in their schedules to attend our demonstration, including Kate Dargan Marquis, Nancy Pfund, Jake Harris, Colonel Trent Mills, Ph.D, and many others.

The Red Sky Summit was the perfect place to announce that Firetech is coming to Washington. Rain is proud to be a founding member of this group, whose purpose is to bring advanced technology into the hands of firefighters.

Our team recently partnered with Sikorsky to demonstrate the advanced technologies enabling autonomous rapid wildfire response to representatives from NASA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Los Angeles County Fire Department, Orange County Fire Authority, and the philanthropic and impact investment community. From coast to coast, the nation faces an unseasonably dry fall—and the red flag warnings and wildfires along with it. Government agencies, aerial firefighting operators, and investors came together to learn and see how both flight and mission autonomy can help prevent high intensity million-acre wildfires. #firetech #wildfire #autonomy

Considering fire ??; Getting likes??, follows, shares in a misleading way; ???? Toilet paper, eucalyptus and the lack of respect for environmental values ??. The latest news on wildfire, summarized for you!

We're so pleased to be able to share this Univision piece by Saddam Aguayo so that people who feel more comfortable hablando en espa?ol tambien se puede aprender sobre nuestras herramientas para los helicópteros! https://lnkd.in/gpNjQFq4

We are the fire creature, known unknowns, water??, carbon, soil, caribou ??, cowboy country, burning and replanting ??—the latest fire news ??.

"What happens if you set a region full of technology entrepreneurs and investors on fire? They start companies. Dozens of start-ups, backed by climate-minded investors with more than $200 million in capital, are developing technology designed to tackle a fundamental challenge of the warming world." Nice to see a Rain shoutout included in this coverage of the great work Convective Capital, Megafire Action, BurnBot, Inc. and Kodama Systems are doing in the #firetech and #climate space. And way to close it out, Kate Dargan Marquis. Those autonomous systems you mention... sound kind of familiar. Read the unlocked article here: https://lnkd.in/gz3GkUp8

Rain's CEO Maxwell Brodie recently sat down with VoLo Foundation's Shannon Maganiezin for a conversation about the relationship between #wildfire, #climate and... #robots. ?? ?? ?? "When we think about the most dangerous places in our universe... outer space, or the deepest depths of the seas, we send robots. We send our robots to places where humans could be put into harm's way. At Rain we very much envision a future where these autonomous systems are keeping humans safe. A centrally located remote autonomy operator can oversee numerous autonomous aircraft, strategically prepositioned throughout high wildfire risk areas. But even in the short term, and this is something we really emphasize with our fire agency partners, is that autonomy technology can support existing human piloted missions with additional layers of safety. Aerial firefighting is not a safe job. In the United States alone there have been on average 6 aerial firefighting fatalities over the past four years, per year. This is just something we accept right now, but it’s not something we have to accept. The technology exists to significantly improve the safety of these operations—sense and avoid obstacles, terrain, wires, towers—and that is something we are very excited to introduce and partner with fire agencies on, taking the first initial step towards fully uncrewed operations.” Enjoy the full episode here on Spotify or Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gk66SvCP

Forests of the North ??, wildfire salvage logging ??, federal firefighter pay raises ??, living with wildfire as the climate shifts ?? and the hazards of necessity ??—what's in the news about fire ??, right now.