If a drone was in my yard I would shoot at it with glee
As a 30 year career/union firefighter, personally I saw nothing wrong with with the drone videoing the incident. Although his flight path did take the drone directly over the hot zone on occasion, the video being shot had much more tremendous value than just considering the drone "a nuisance". I would agree, amateur drone flyers should have some basic rules when flying over events such as this, as well as standing permissions from the local jurisdictions having authority. But as I said, videos such as this can provide valuable information to the department as to tactics, strategy deployment, after action critiques, and even fire investigation. All the firefighters had to do is there job, address the fire situation, and get a copy of the video from the drone operator (notice I didn't say 'request a copy'). I know several NY firefighters and in all likelihood, those guys were just being a-holes.
Nothing about this video strikes me as if a kid is the one flying/filming. There was way too much stability and restraint for a kid to be controlling. At no point in time did the RC/drone get in the way or become a danger to anyone. In fact from my point of view it looks as if I have been enlightened (thanks to this video) to the concept that 75% of the crew needs to be fired. Perhaps this perception is what the fire department was annoyed about getting recorded. You are basically wanting to track down this person for recording what appears to be the fire department dragging their feet. Reminds me allot of a closed door policy where people don't have to defend their bad choices and have the freedom to pass blame. People work and are monitored all day, a little video of fire fighters in action is only a good thing.Hope this kid is tracked down by the fire department and at least, given a good talking to.
Great video. The pilot had awesome shots of a house fire and all the firefighters putting out the blaze. But I did notice a LOT of firefighters walking and standing about. Was that a 5 alarm fire or overkill?
They needed to pay attention to their work and not the drone! Yes, the fire department should pay for his drone!
"THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DAMAGED HIS PROPERTY - They should PAY FOR IT! You don't just shoot someone's car, do you? No... You damage someone's ****, you pay... UNLESS It is self defense, and this drone wasn't attacking! Yes, they should pay!"
No one has a legal right to enter private property at any time without the property owners permission...and that includes the air space above said property.
If you think a property owner has to put up with someone flying drones over their property without permission then I have some bad news for you...the right to privacy, peaceful use of property, freedom from harassment...all of these things will get a drone owner taken to court if not arrested. Property owners do not have to put up with drones and once a drone flies above private property the property owner is free to take whatever action they feel is necessary...including shooting down the drone.
1. He wasnt interfering. The firefighters were just annoyed with it.
2. Intentional destruction of property is against the law even if its a drone.
3. The firefighters could probably use this tech themselves to make their jobs safer.
It's a flying camera, what else would it be doing? Get back to work!Imagine being a firefighter fighting that particular fire and a drone starts flying around nearby you when you don't really have the time to see what that drone is doing.
Stop making up BS, when the RC clearly didn't get close enough to interfere with the fire fighters.2. Interfering with public emergency services is even more illegal. There probably won't be any charges pressed on either side regardless.
Here you are making an assumption. You don't know what the fire fighters know.3. These firefighters don't know that drone is doing there and even though this tech maybe could be effectively used for firefighters that doesn't necessarily make it ok in this situation.
Anyone that can not do their job for distractions around them, need to stay at home.Neither do you. I'm making assumptions on what did happen though and not what did not happen (like your assumptions). A drone approaches firefighters. Firefighter then focuses attention away from the fire to the drone. You can see that as not interfering if you want.