Sixteen drones that make up the operational fleet of the Sardinian Civil Protection will be operational in a few days. And among these there are also those for night flights, which are decisive for the prevention and fight against summer fires.
The trials took place this morning at the Tortolì airport. The Councilor for the Environment Marco Porcu and the Director General of Civil Protection Antonio Pasquale Belloi were present.
«The Civil Protection is completing the course for the use of drones - explained Porcu -. The last checks are being carried out at Tortolì airport. We have decided to set up a nucleus, currently based in Nuoro, where we already had trained operators and with whom we will identify the teams to be deployed throughout the region for the use of drones".
"The means and the technology - continued the councilor - will serve us to control the territory, to intervene in a phase of high risk, both of fire and other crisis situations, for example the search for missing persons".
There are 40 of them following the course and they will be centralized in the general management and then, gradually spread over the entire regional territory. "We will also purchase additional means in addition to those already arrived which will have important characteristics - announced Porcu - in particular as regards service autonomy, with over an hour of uninterrupted flight, which will allow us to intervene on several scenarios of different risks".
The firefighting campaign, which started last June 1, thus sees more than nine thousand people on the field, with the operational fleet of drones, including the Forestry Corps, Forestas, Civil Protection, firefighters, volunteers and barriers, more than a thousand land vehicles and various aircraft positioned on the territory.
(Unioneonline/ss)
