Volatus drones help Alberta battle Canada’s enormous wildfires

Canada’s diversified drone hardware and services company Volatus Aerospace wasted little time in putting its recently acquired firefighting credentials to good use by assisting efforts in Alberta this month to battle wildfires that have punished the province.

Toronto-based Volatus said it successfully completed its first field deployment of drones and related tech in support of firefighters from Western Canada, who are working to extinguish wildfires that have already consumed an estimated 100,000 square kilometers across the nation. The company provided aerial situational awareness assistance during nighttime flights of UAVs under a special Transport Canada authorization to operate beyond line of visual sight missions above 400 feet.

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Volatus secured that Transport Canada approval in support of the nation’s firefighters in early May. Less than a month later it…