Last week firefighting crews couldn’t do their job because five amateur drones were circling the area. And this wasn’t the first time. Drones are getting in the way, and some lawmakers in California want to change all that. Specifically they’d like to give emergency responders the legal ability to disable drones.
Republican State Senator Ted Gaines, and Democratic Assemblyman Mike Gatto, have introduced a new bill in the California Senate that would protect emergency responders from charges if they disable drones that are interfering with their work.