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South Okanagan Photos

Two reports of a drone in Oliver area – air attack suspended

save pictureFolks very dangerous for anyone to use drones in air space utilized for commercial, recreational or emergency aircraft.

Names could be used in this instance but it would be counter productive.

We hope those person(s) will stop – notify the authorities that your actions have suspended so emergency aircraft can resume flights to fight the fire.

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Below is from the Ministry of Forests

URGENT: All air operations at the Testalinden Creek fire were just halted because of a drone violating our airspace.

It is illegal to operate a drone over or near any wildfire.

Our aircraft will return to the fire once we can confirm the drone has been grounded and we can safely operate.

Record: Oliver Daily News has no drone and has never used a drone. Some of my pictures appear to be taken from high up – all of my photo shoot locations on land and within ten feet of my car. A picture taken with a long range zoom often appears to be “mid-air”.