Velicovich: We’re Going To Be Augmenting Medical Professionals with Drone Support in the Wake of Irma

RUSH EXCERPT:
VELICOVICH: "So, essentially what’s happened now is a lot of people obviously are heading out of Florida. Our team is heading. In we just moved our group of professional drone pilots and a small team and equipment of industrial drones here to help with Irma. We have embedded with a group of medical professionals. So doctors, nurses, even a canine search and rescue team. We’re going to basically be augmenting them with drone support. So a lot of the stuff that we can do with drones is actually going to occur after the storm hits. And so we’re going to be really focused on doing instant damage assessments, providing live streams of videos to people in need. Sending videos from the drone camera to commands centers. And also really doing some of the stuff we did at Harvey which was inspecting critical infrastructure. Making sure our homes were safe to return to. And really what we have done now is we have prestaged here in Orlando. We’re going to be monitoring the storm to figure out where are the locations that we need to focus on after it hits."