<p>A firefighting helicopter making a water drop over the Pump House Fire in western Montana in August 2008. A drone is spending a week flying over an Idaho fire as a test of its capabilities as a useful firefighting tool.</p>
September 18, 2015
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September 18, 2015 9 p.m.
The future of firefighting?
Wildfire managers plan drone test over Idaho blaze
BOISE - A high-tech drone is spending a week flying over a west-central Idaho wildfire to see if it's capable of supplying real-time information that incident commanders can use when directing ground-based firefighters and manned aircraft.