{"id":27369,"date":"2022-11-26T17:54:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T22:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=27369"},"modified":"2022-11-26T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T22:54:57","slug":"pcfr-uses-drone-to-locate-patient-in-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/11\/26\/pcfr-uses-drone-to-locate-patient-in-distress\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>PCFR Uses Drone to Locate Patient in Distress<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday at 12:46 p.m. Polk County Fire Rescue (PCFR) received a report of a hiker in distress at Tigers Creek Preserve and ultimately located the patient using an aerial drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Polk-County-Fire-Rescue-Special-Operations-Drone-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Polk-County-Fire-Rescue-Special-Operations-Drone-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Polk-County-Fire-Rescue-Special-Operations-Drone-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Polk-County-Fire-Rescue-Special-Operations-Drone-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Polk-County-Fire-Rescue-Special-Operations-Drone-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Polk-County-Fire-Rescue-Special-Operations-Drone-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon PCFR\u2019s arrival, the Fire Rescue aerial drone was launched to begin searching for the patient who was reportedly stranded on a rural walking trail. From an aerial view through specialized cameras, the drone was able to see what crews on the ground could not allowing PCFR to successfully locate the individual and render aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk\u2019s current drone program began in 2019 and currently conducts various missions for search and rescue, HAZMAT team deployment, major disaster scenes, storm damage asses. \u201cOur drone program is essential to the commitment of the department\u2019s 21st Century all-hazards preparedness,\u201d said Fire Chief Dr. Hezedean Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday at 12:46 p.m. Polk County Fire Rescue (PCFR) received a report of a hiker in distress at Tigers Creek Preserve and ultimately located the patient using an aerial&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3941],"class_list":["post-27369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-pcfr-uses-drone-to-locate-patient-in-distress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}