Austin Fire Department given $80K grant to use drones for emergencies

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Fire Department has been given an $80,000 grant to use drones to help in emergency situations.
They are working with New York University to test and implement new ultra-speed wireless communications technology. That will be used to send data used from drone video to emergency operation centers in real time.
“Being able to fly over and get good situational awareness, being able to provide images and video back to our incident commander so they can make decis