The firefighting drone test occurred as a slew of wildfires continued to erupt across east and west Canada, leading to the evacuation of thousands of people. Because every opportunity we have to keep people from dying during firefighting, we need to try." "We're trying to bring robotics technology to wildfire management. "It's the future of firefighting," he says on his way from Coimbra to the demonstration site in Lousâ, steering his black electric car past mountain slopes spackled with eucalyptus. With a wingspan of 2.14m (7ft) and made primarily of carbon fibre, can swoop into places that are too dangerous or too difficult for firefighters to enter, says Carlos Viegas, a mechanical engineer who heads the University of Coimbra’s Field Tech Lab and co-led the project. The drone is lightweight, easy to operate and nimble at low altitudes. The 21kg (46lb) drone, called Sap (for "ported nozzle system" in Portuguese) is one of the newest tools in the battle to beat back extreme wildfires. In about two-and-a-half minutes, the fire is out. A pair of jets on either side of the hose pummel the flames with water as the drone operator controls the device from behind a fire truck, the device's water source.
A large drone hovers about 15m (49ft) above, a fire-proof hose dangling from its belly.
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As the flames leap higher, a torrent of water suddenly falls from the sky. On a still, hot May afternoon in central Portugal, a car-sized pile of brush catches fire.
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