When Calloway County Fire-Rescue is dispatched for a call, its response is rather distinguished.
Out into the highways and roads goes a fleet of mainly white trucks with flashing red lights. CCFR will also be the agency with boats being pulled by its support units for water rescue calls on Kentucky Lake and other creeks and streams in the county. Recently, CCFR received its first actual ladder truck for an added pinch of variety.
Soon, though, it will be deploying something that does not have a siren and is not a truck, but this new tool may prove to be one of its most valued. And it fits in a box — a drone.
This past weekend, technicians from a California firm guided several CCFR members through a training course on how to use this vehicle that seems straight out of a science-fiction movie.