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FOREST INK: Drones can be useful in fighting wildfires

Drone technology can be used to find wildfire hot spots and some search and rescue work
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Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune. (File photo)

I travelled out to the West Branch last week to help with the protection being set up on the recreation homes on Horn and Sapeye lakes being threatened by the Twist Lake and Hell Raving Creek forest fires.

Thanks to the local fire caches and volunteers some of the cabins had sprinklers already set up. By the time I got there a structural protection unit (SPU) had set up sprinklers on all five properties on Sapeye Lake.

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