How drones are hunting fires hidden beneath the Cairngorms
Source: BBC ·
Dramatic flames from the huge Cairngorms wildfire in July have disappeared - but hot spots can continue to burn beneath the earth.
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Drone pilot Pete Short hunts for hotspots in the Cairngorms National Park which was devastated by a huge wildfire over the summer It is 06:00 and I'm meeting drone pilot Pete Short for a dawn patrol in the Cairngorms National Park. It is a job he has been doing for almost three months, since a huge wildfire tore through this landscape in July. The flames which swept across the hillsides are gone. From where we are standing, there is little to suggest there is still a fire here at all. But that is exactly what we have come to find. After a bumpy drive into the woodland, Pete launches a thermal drone into the early morning sky. I am given a job too: keeping the aircraft in sight while he studies the images being sent back to his screen. "Every week I hope that I find none," he tells me. "On the last thermal flight I did we found eight." "We might have something here," Pete says, as a white glow appears on the thermal image beneath a tree. Three months after the fire first ignited, heat…
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