While drones have been part of the department's toolbox since 2020, fire leaders are now looking to expand the program with a long-term vision of placing a drone at every fire station in the city. The goal is to launch drones to emergencies within moments, giving firefighters and police real-time aerial intelligence before crews arrive on scene.
"We can see if we're starting to get thermal runaway, an incident that might be too dangerous to put people in," said Roseville Fire Captain Jonathan Davidson. "We can start getting video and transmitting it down to people on the ground who need that intel."
"They want to put a drone on every single fire station in town," Davidson said. "That drone can launch from the fire station, and there would be a person in the control center able to fly that drone and provide the aerial reconnaissance."
As the program grows, so will the need for trained drone operators.
"We're pretty much problem solvers," Pham said. "A lot of times in an emergency, we're given about 60 to 70 percent of the facts and you have to take action. I think that's a skill set a lot of veterans have that can translate to civilian life or the fire service."
"When an organization needs drones and drone operators, the military has them," said Veterans Workforce Alliance board member Nathan Champion. "About 200,000 military personnel transition out of the military every year, so that's a perfect source for organizations that have that need."
"There's so many different things that we do in this profession that are outside of just taking a hose into a burning building and putting water on the fire," he said.
From boots on the ground to eyes in the sky, Roseville firefighters say drones are becoming an increasingly important tool, helping crews gather critical information faster, improve firefighter safety and shape the future of emergency response.
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