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Can a Drone Save Yosemite?

Eye in the Sky

Firefighters have a new ally: unmanned eyes in the sky.

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California firefighters are using an unmanned aircraft to help fight the 12-day-old Rim fire, which has scorched more than 192,000 acres near Yosemite National Park, and is considered to be the seventh-largest wildfire in California history.

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