[Smart City Today]
On September 14, an elderly man suffering from Alzheimer's disease was reported missing in Geumwang-eup, Eumseong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do. The Chungbuk Fire Department found and rescued an elderly person who was about to be exhausted using a fire drone of the 119 Special Rescue Team. A fire official who participated in the search said, "We found a human shape in the bush by checking the drone’s screen, and it would have been difficult for the ground search team to find it because of the grass grown as tall as a person," adding, "If the discovery was late and passed the day, the rescue target would not have been able to survive.”
In line with the fourth industrial revolution, the National Fire Agency (Director Nam Hwa-young) announced that it will improve firefighting services for the public using state-of-the-art fire drones. Since introducing six fire drones in 2015, a total of 372 drones have been owned by the Central 119 Rescue Headquarters and 19 fire departments across the country. The number of firefighters with drone pilot certificates also increased to 3,379.
The number of firefighting drones dispatched to disaster sites increased by 11.6% year-on-year to 2,043 times, including 753 times to △ firefighting and 1,290 times to △ rescue and search sites until September this year.
The vertical movement speed of the drone is 4m per second, and it takes about 25 seconds to reach the 30th floor of the building. It is 16 times faster than the average speed of a firemen's movement of 6 minutes and 9 seconds.
The National Fire Agency is conducting research and development in cooperation with six organizations, including Cheongju University's Industry-Academic Cooperation Group, to use drones at various disaster sites.
△ Cluster drones (suppress fires in high-rise buildings) △ Communication relay drones (build LTE/5G aerial repeaters that can be replaced when mobile communication base stations are unable to communicate) △ Stretcher drones (transfer rescue targets or cargo from dangerous areas to safe areas) are under research and development.
It is expected to expand public services through drone use, such as high-performance drones that can be operated for a long time continuously and stably, and the introduction of a control system that allows on-site command and control by transmitting acquired video information to the command center in real-time.
"We will do our best to protect the lives of the people by securing golden time through active use of fire drones in the moments of urgent disaster that every minute and second counts," said Park Tae-won, head of the Fire and Aviation Department at the National Fire Agency.
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