Let the social and legal backlash be brutal— there has to be no incentive to fly drones over active incidents. So dangerous, and it makes it so much harder to make a case for legitimate and needed drone operations in service to fire science and disaster management.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/drone-collides-with-firefighting-aircraft-over-palisades-fire-faa-says