{"id":392708,"date":"2015-09-07T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=392708"},"modified":"2015-09-08T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:00:02","slug":"kilgore-fd-prepares-to-put-new-drone-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=392708","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore FD Prepares to Put New Drone to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/vlcsnap-2015-07-20-17h28m38s124_1437431956614_2461105_ver1.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/vlcsnap-2015-07-20-17h28m38s124_1437431956614_2461105_ver1.0-200x113.png\" alt=\"vlcsnap-2015-07-20-17h28m38s124_1437431956614_2461105_ver1.0\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-392709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/vlcsnap-2015-07-20-17h28m38s124_1437431956614_2461105_ver1.0-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/vlcsnap-2015-07-20-17h28m38s124_1437431956614_2461105_ver1.0-450x253.png 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/vlcsnap-2015-07-20-17h28m38s124_1437431956614_2461105_ver1.0.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>KILGORE &#8212; The Kilgore Fire Department will be taking a new approach to assisting in emergency situations.  KETK reports it&#8217;s the first department in East Texas to purchase a drone.    Last week, the department presented the drone, known as Eric &#8212; &#8220;emergency response information collector&#8221; &#8212; at the city council meeting.   Eric was bought by the Kilgore Rescue Unit, which drew funds from the city, Gregg and Rusk Counties, and donations.   The department has now applied for the FAA certificate of authorization, and should receive approval within sixty days.   Fire Chief Mike Simmons says, &#8220;As we start to move forward in the phase one of training in the FAACLA process, we&#8217;ll have a formalized class where all the folks that want to fly the thing or be trained to fly it will go through training &#8212; how to operate it, how to use the fail-safe features.&#8221;<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Once training is complete, the department plans to fly Eric to emergency situations such as floods and fires to determine what actions to take.   The department also plans to use footage from the device to address situations after the fact. Simmons says the process will involve &#8220;taking an aerial photo of the scene, being able to see where our apparatus and hoselines and everything were staged and parked and we can go back and talk about the incident.&#8221;  Officials say Eric will also be able to deliver aid.   By attaching a string to the drone, officials say they could deliver emergency equipment such as life jackets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; The Kilgore Fire Department will be taking a new approach to assisting in emergency situations. KETK reports it&#8217;s the first department in East Texas to purchase a drone. Last week, the department presented the drone, known as Eric &#8212; &#8220;emergency response information collector&#8221; &#8212; at the city council meeting. Eric was bought by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=392708\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kilgore FD Prepares to Put New Drone to Work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":392709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 06:50:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392711,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392708\/revisions\/392711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/392709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}