Firefighting drones head to Aspen—can they suppress a blaze before humans arrive?
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Seneca, a Bay Area drone manufacturer, has signed its first customer in the Aspen Fire Protection District, deploying a fleet of five firefighting drones to the Colorado ski town this summer. Each drone can carry enough water to produce over 50 gallons of fire-suppressing foam, designed to slow wildfire spread and extinguish small blazes before human crews arrive. Aspen becomes the first U.S. wildfire agency to deploy this type of aircraft operationally.
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