YT YouTube2Text

YouTube2Text → Transcripts → What the Palisades Fire Taught Corona FD About Mop-Up | Michael Leckliter

What the Palisades Fire Taught Corona FD About Mop-Up | Michael Leckliter — Transcript

by TAK Public Safety · 4,394 words · 690 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

Open in transcriber Summarize with AI Download SRT/VTT

Full transcript

0:04There we go.
0:06>> So, I'm going to talk to you guys a
0:07little bit about today how we are using
0:08or have the ability to use drones, uh,
0:11ATAC, and a couple different software
0:12solutions to really make sure that a
0:16fire that we go on is out and doesn't
0:18become a problem later on. So, first
0:20off, a little bit about me. U, I've been
0:22with the Corona Fire Department for 19
0:24years now. Um, I am our UAS manager. I
0:29manage a fleet. We actually are pretty
0:30lucky. We have a UAS on every fire
0:34engine in the city of Corona. We use the
0:37DJI Mavic 3 thermals. Like everyone's
0:40trained to use them. On top of that, I
0:42also manage all of our TAC devices. We
0:45have roughly 75 devices uh between
0:48phones and tablets. Again, every fire
0:50engine that we have typically has at
0:52least three TAC devices on it. So, we
0:54are wellversed in TAC. Uh, and it all
0:57started back from my introduction to it
0:59back in uh, 2019 when AJ brought it back
1:02from some of the wildfires and said,
1:04"Here's this really cool thing. Uh,
1:06let's figure it out. How how can we use
1:08it?"
1:11All right. So, in California, we have
1:14over 8,000 wildfires that burn across
1:18the state each year. Um, so out there in
1:21California, we pretty much say that
1:22that's California's state bird. It's the
1:24air tanker. So fire season is a term
1:28that we use a lot. And fire season in
1:30California, it doesn't really end
1:32anymore. For those that are out in
1:35California, we know that it usually
1:37comes twice a year. You've got your
1:39really hot dry heat in the summertime,
1:42but this time the the the fall kind of
1:45early winter, we have a unique event
1:47where we get the Santa Ana winds or
1:49those those really dry long sustained
1:51winds. Um, so what does that mean for us
1:54when these fires come across? It's long
1:57days that blur into nights. We got
1:59engines staged at the edge of canyons,
2:02the smell of smoke that doesn't quite
2:04ever wash out. It's fastmoving fire,
2:07unpredictable winds, and a constant race
2:10to try and stay one step ahead of a
2:13fastmoving fire, which is really just a
2:16force that doesn't rest. We train. We
2:19prepare for it. And when the hills light
2:21up, it's all hands on de deck.
2:24Every spark is a threat. Every ember can
2:27mean another home, another life, another
2:29fight.
2:32But when the flames die down and the
2:35cameras leave, that's when the real work
2:37begins. So we call it mopup. It's a
2:40long, dirty, painstaking process of
2:43making sure that the fire is truly out.
2:46It's crawling through blackened ground
2:48with hand tools, turning over smoldering
2:51logs and soaking hot spots till the hiss
2:53is gone. It's hot, it's slow, and it's
2:57often thankless. But it's what keeps the
3:00small victory from turning into a
3:03tomorrow's large disaster.
3:08But we have to do it right. So, let's
3:11talk about what caused the Palisades
3:13fire. It wasn't a down power line or a
3:16new ignition. It was a holdover fire.
3:19It's a powerful reminder that when mopup
3:21isn't done completely, the fire is not
3:24over. It's just waiting for the next
3:26chance to ignite and consume. Fire is
3:29ruthless. Fire is relentless. It is
3:31destructive and it is deadly.
3:35So, we're going to start with the
3:36Lochman fire. Uh we begin here because
3:38this is actually the root of our uh
3:40tragic but preventable tale.
3:44The area of the fire was known to be a
3:47very high risk due to years of
3:49vegetation growth and a prolonged
3:51drought resulting in an abundance of
3:54fuel. It was just ready to burn. So on
3:57New Year's Day, a seemingly small brush
4:00fire broke out very early in the
4:02morning, started by an arsonist uh near
4:05a popular hiking trail. The crews
4:08suppressed it pretty quickly and the
4:10forward progress was stopped in just a
4:12few hours. But what can't always be
4:15seen, heat underneath the surface,
4:17apparently lingered.
4:19What looks out may not actually be out.
4:22And the latent heat becomes our risk
4:25vector.
4:28So here's where the trigger builds. A
4:30major wind event was forecast just days
4:33after the Lochman fire was put out. We
4:36call them Santa Ana winds. Their red
4:38flag warning was issued January 6th for
4:42a significant wind event that was
4:44supposed to begin on January 7th,
4:47lasting for several days. In fact, the
4:49National Weather Service stated that
4:51this is a life-threatening windstorm.
4:54Gusts were expected to reach 60 to 80
4:57miles an hour with some areas,
4:59especially in the mountains, to hit 90
5:01miles hour.
5:04Meanwhile, there's subtle signs of smoke
5:07or smoldering in the prior burn area
5:09were observed. Several hikers and
5:12residents noted wisps of smoke and a
5:14smoky odor in that fire
5:17um days prior to the Palisades fire
5:19breaking out. So now you have residual
5:22heat, increasing winds, and dry fuels.
5:26You that's pretty much the recipe for
5:28disaster.
5:31So, the Palisades fire was devastating.
5:33It ignited in the same area as that
5:35early Lochman fire and ultimately spread
5:38through steep canyons into densely
5:40populated neighborhoods. In a matter of
5:43hours, thousands were evacuated,
5:46thousands of homes were destroyed, and
5:4812 lives were lost. It became Los
5:50Angeles's most uh destructive fire in
5:53recent memory. But beyond the physical
5:56damage, the fire really revealed a hard
5:58truth. Even a small pocket of heat left
6:02unchecked can lead to catastrophic
6:04consequences.
6:06It reminded us all in the fire service
6:08that mop-up isn't just your final step.
6:10It's that line of defense between
6:12containment and catastrophe.
6:17So the question becomes, after seeing
6:19what happened in the Palisades fire, how
6:21is the Corona Fire Department making
6:23sure that doesn't happen in Corona?
6:26How are we using technology to confirm
6:28that every fire is truly out and no
6:30hidden heat is left behind to reignite
6:32later? Our approach combines UAS,
6:36thermal imaging, and TAC to verify
6:38extinguishment with data, not just
6:41assumptions.
6:44So, before we dive into TAC and how we
6:46use our UAS, I want to give you a little
6:48bit of background about Corona. So,
6:50we're about 35 miles uh southeast of
6:53downtown LA. You can kind of see on the
6:55map there, we're at a crossroads where
6:57Riverside, Sanardino, Orange County, and
7:00Los Angeles County all meet. We call
7:02that area the solar area because it's
7:05Sanino, Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside.
7:09Um, it's a complex wildland urban
7:12interface area that has to demand
7:15coordination between all these bordering
7:17mutual aid agencies.
7:20The city covers roughly 40 square miles.
7:22We have 160,000 residents. Um, we're
7:26also a career fire department. We have
7:27seven fire stations. We have 35
7:29personnel on duty every day.
7:32We're all risk. We handle everything
7:34from wildfire, structure fire, hazmat
7:37response, and primarily we run medical
7:39aids.
7:43So, we start out on Friday, July 25th of
7:46this year. A fastmoving brush fire
7:49ignited near Palisades Drive and Green
7:50River Drive. right along that solar
7:53response zone in Corona late in the
7:55afternoon. This area is known for having
7:59a strong afternoon wind as well as being
8:01in a canyon-like area. The fire prompted
8:04evacuation orders as crews hit it hard
8:06with ground and air resources from
8:08multiple agencies in that solar response
8:10plan. Fire was mapped at roughly 30
8:13acres with Corona fire assuming command.
8:17Evacuations were lifted the next day
8:19while containment steadily increased.
8:22The cause remained under investigation,
8:24but it was suspected to be the result of
8:25a homeless encampment fire.
8:28But this incident underscores how
8:30quickly a small start in your
8:31neighborhoods can escalate and later why
8:34rapid detection and targeted mop-up
8:37intelligence really matters.
8:40So let's talk again about that fires
8:42program. Uh fire stands for fire
8:44integrated real-time intelligence
8:46system. It's a California initiative
8:48that provides real-time aerial
8:50surveillance uh to support wildfire
8:52decision-making. Using these ISR
8:55aircraft equipped with advanced uh
8:57infrared and electrooptical sensors,
8:59FYIs gives us live video feeds and
9:01produces highly accurate perimeter maps
9:04within minutes of them arriving on
9:05scene. And fortunately for the Corona
9:07Fire Department, a firsus aircraft just
9:10took off from our local airport as this
9:13fire was starting. They were in route to
9:15another fire out in the desert. But uh
9:17they were able to quickly divert,
9:19conduct our ISR surveillance mission and
9:22uh give us our product outputs before
9:24they went to their initial mission.
9:28So
9:31live full motion video provided initial
9:34intel to the ground crews during the
9:36firefight. It helped direct resources
9:38where the most active portions of the
9:40fire were, helped prevent extension of
9:42the homes above the hillside, but that
9:45valuable information contained well
9:47beyond the active firefight.
9:53The fire flights produced perimeter
9:55polygons which were published over KML
9:58network link all able to be ingested and
10:00attacked just minutes after performing
10:02the flight. Crews were able to knock
10:04down the fire with no damage reported to
10:06any structure and no injuries reported
10:08by any firefighter or civilian.
10:12Now with the fire out we had to go into
10:16mopup without any additional
10:18intelligence. Mop-up is slow, manual,
10:20sensory. The crews are going to be
10:22moving line by line through the black,
10:24relying on sight, touch,
10:28uh, instinct to find hidden heat. As I
10:30mentioned before, they're going to be
10:32digging through the ashes with their
10:33tools. They're going to be turning over
10:35smoldering logs, putting out any hot
10:37spots,
10:38um, and just they're going to be there
10:40for quite a while. So progress usually
10:43depends on experience, but even our
10:45seasoned firefighters can miss some
10:47pretty deep-seated embers.
10:50Any incident that's larger than a few
10:52acres, um making sure that we verify
10:54every hot spot is cold, it can take
10:57hours or even days of very labor
11:00intensive work. The result, greater
11:03exposure to the firefighters, longer
11:05commitment of resources, and the ling
11:07lingering risk that that single unseen
11:11ember or hotspot could reignite, you
11:14know, the entire high hillside.
11:17Now, large scale wild wildfires often
11:19utilize manned aircraft equipped with
11:22infrared sensors, and they produce great
11:24output hotspot maps like the one you see
11:27here. But when it comes to small
11:29incidents or even medium-sized
11:31incidents, we simply don't have the
11:33resources to call upon these costly and
11:36uh very resource consuming items. So
11:39instead, we have to rely on different
11:42features.
11:44So instead of waiting for these costly
11:46aerial assets, we've brought that same
11:48infrared technology down to the local
11:51level using our own thermal equipped UAS
11:54to perform detailed hotspot mapping
11:57immediately after containment. So after
12:00the fires contained, our fire department
12:02uses our Mavic 3 thermals. We conduct
12:04system systemic infrared flights over
12:07the burn area. The missions are flown at
12:10a medium altitude, typically after dark,
12:13and we capture some pretty high
12:14resolution thermal imagery that reveals
12:16any residual heat signatures that are
12:18invisible to the naked eye.
12:22Now, to make thermal mapping faster and
12:25more intuitive, the Corona Fire
12:27Department developed a custom flight
12:29planning app that integrates directly
12:31with TAC. Instead of manually
12:33programming a flight parameters into the
12:35drone's native mission mission app, the
12:38user simply draws an area of interest on
12:40TAC and exports it. The app
12:43automatically generates a readyto-fly
12:46UAS mission using parameters that are
12:48already optimized for wildfire mapping
12:51operations. The result, significantly
12:53increased efficiency, reduced mission
12:55setup time from several minutes to just
12:57several seconds, all while ensuring we
13:00have a consistent altitude overlap
13:02camera configurations.
13:05By automating these technical steps, the
13:07pilot can focus on getting the critical
13:08data and not trying to program flight
13:10lines.
13:12So, here's a real-time workflow of how
13:14UAS operations take basic intel, which
13:17is the fire parameters there in green,
13:18to create a mission for a flight plan.
13:21So they're going to draw a polygon
13:22around that area of interest where we
13:25want to have a a flight mapped.
13:28They're going to simply use ATAC to
13:30export that shape as a KML.
13:34And the great thing about TAC is it just
13:36puts it has its own designated export
13:38folder so you know where all this stuff
13:40is going to live.
13:41We open this app, this custom app,
13:44direct ourselves to that file that was
13:46just made. Give it a simple mission name
13:48because we always want to identify what
13:49we're dealing with.
13:52And for simplicity, we just tell it to
13:54put it right back into that export
13:55folder.
13:57And you'll notice down at the bottom
13:58now, we have my flight parameters. Very
14:00simple. Are we going to do a 200 foot, a
14:01400 foot, and what camera am I going to
14:04use? Finishing it automatically launches
14:07the DJI Pilot app. All I have to do is
14:11navigate to that file, tap on that
14:14import, and you'll see right here as it
14:16pulls up, I have a flight plan that is
14:18already made. Uh, I'll open up the
14:21details on the side and you just to
14:22verify, but you can see that it's it's
14:24going to be the IR camera. I've already
14:26got my ground sampling set, my altitude
14:28is set, maximum speed, and it's already
14:30set to um distance interval shot. So, I
14:33know my overlap is going to be perfect.
14:37So now we use a software platform called
14:40Nova to take the data that we collect in
14:42the field and turn it into actionable
14:45intelligence.
14:48Once our postfire thermal flight is
14:51complete, we bring that imagery straight
14:53off the Mavic 3 thermal into the Nova
14:55platform. Each image contains the
14:57embedded GPS and radiometric data, so
15:00Nova already knows exactly where each
15:03pixel came from and how hot it is.
15:06The upload process is fairly quick. We
15:08simply drag the mission folder right
15:09into the NOVA workspace and the system
15:11just starts processing automatically.
15:15Now, NOVA uses some advanced thermal
15:17analysis algorithms to evaluate the
15:20infrared luminosity.
15:22They identify subtle variations in heat
15:25that may or may not be in visible to
15:28even standard IR pallets. Those
15:31temperature anomalies are classified as
15:33potential hotspots which Nova then plots
15:36onto geo referenced orthomosaic maps. So
15:39within just minutes we can actually
15:40visualize the entire burn area um in an
15:43interactive map where every hotspot is
15:46clearly marked.
15:49From there, that map can be directly
15:51exported into TAC via a KML and shared
15:55with field crews, allowing us to direct
15:58mop-up operations with pinpoint accuracy
16:00instead of guesswork.
16:04So, once Nova processes the thermal
16:06imagery, we're not just looking at, you
16:08know, pretty heat maps. We've got
16:10actionable intelligence at this point.
16:12With those hotspots directly exported
16:14into attack, those ground crews can
16:17start conducting better mopup.
16:20Since each hotspot is georreerenced,
16:22when the firefighter looks at that
16:24device in the field, they see exactly
16:26where they need to go to do a final
16:29check.
16:31So, thermal imagery that's processed
16:33through Nova can also reveal hidden
16:35hotspots that even experienced crews or
16:38aerial observers might overlook. The
16:41software detects those subtle heat
16:42signatures that blend into the
16:45environment or remain buried beneath ash
16:47or soil or debris. And these smolding
16:50areas often escape detection during
16:53initial or ground initial ground sweeps.
16:56Once they're mapped, they stand out very
16:58clearly in that thermal mosaic. So in
17:01this section uh highlighted by the
17:03purple box, Nova actually identified
17:06multiple residual heat sources uh that
17:08were not detected by the fires aircraft
17:11or the initial ground crews uh during
17:13suppression. The hotspots were buried
17:15beneath surface ash invisible to the
17:18naked eye and below the detection
17:20threshold of the standard infrared
17:21scans. And the ground crews actually
17:24confirmed that this was a true hot spot
17:26when they did their targeted mop-up
17:27operation the next morning.
17:30So instead of combing through hundreds
17:33of yards of black, crews can now go
17:35straight to the problem areas, saving
17:38time, conserving water, and reducing
17:40their exposure to those health hazards.
17:43Corona Fire Department mop-up crews have
17:45actually reported exceptional accuracy
17:47from this process, confirming that
17:49nearly every hot spot that was mapped
17:52corresponded to a legitimate heat source
17:54on the ground.
17:56So this has pretty much changed the way
17:58that we do targeted mopup from a wide
18:01area timeintensive
18:03heavy labor operation to a targeted
18:06datadriven strategy that makes the job
18:08faster, safer, and more efficient.
18:13Now, 72 hours after the Green Fire was
18:16knocked down, the UAS flights were
18:18conducted and only 10 hotspots were
18:20picked up by NOVA. Each of these 10
18:22spots were inspected by our ground crews
18:24and determined to be rocky areas that
18:27had been holding on to some heat, mostly
18:29from solar heating, because you remember
18:30this was like the middle of summer in
18:32Southern California. So, this process
18:35didn't just save time, it gave us
18:37verifiable proof that the fire line was
18:40cold, something that traditional methods
18:42rarely offer with this level of
18:44certainty.
18:46Secondary result, less man-hour
18:48resulting in decreased personnel and
18:50equipment costs were spent on mop-up
18:52with pretty much a greater confidence
18:53level that the job was done.
18:57So beyond thermal hotspot detection,
18:59Nova gives us actually a suite of tools
19:01that extend situational awareness to any
19:04agency, even those not using TAC. The
19:07platform can generate some
19:08highresolution orthomosaic maps, blend
19:11visual thermal imagery into a single
19:13geospatially accurate product. Maps can
19:16even be annotated and exported as PDFs,
19:19allowing incident commanders to label
19:21their hotspots, division breaks, or any
19:23other critical locations before they
19:25publish.
19:26And for seamless collaboration, Nova
19:28offers QR code sharing, enable crews,
19:31partner agencies, EOCC's to instantly
19:34access the latest maps with no special
19:38software required. This flexibility
19:40makes sure that any cooperating agency
19:43can obtain this intelligence with or
19:45without TAC.
19:48So, as we close, I want to bring back
19:50why this matters. When we talk about
19:53mist heat, we're not just talking about
19:55a few smoldering embers. We're talking
19:58about the potential for disaster.
20:01This unchecked residual heat can
20:03reignite days, even weeks later. And
20:06when it does, it's not always a small
20:08rekindle. It is potentially another
20:11fullscale incident. Results can be
20:14devastating. Millions in losses,
20:17destroyed homes, damaged ecosystems, and
20:19lives put at risk, including the
20:22firefighters who are now back to a scene
20:24that they thought was initially safe.
20:26So, the Palisades fire was 100%
20:30preventable. Lives were lost, homes were
20:33destroyed, and priceless memories were
20:35erased by the destructive flames. This
20:38is the cost of not doing it right.
20:42Every hot spot left behind is a
20:43potential ignition source. And all it
20:45takes is the right wind, the right fuel,
20:48and just a few minutes to undo days,
20:50weeks of hard work that were put into
20:53the initial containment effort.
20:56So the tools that we've talked about
20:58today, TAC, NOVA, and our UAS, they give
21:01us the ability to remove any of that
21:02uncertainty of is it out? It's not just
21:06efficiency. It's accountability,
21:09confidence, prevention. You know, the
21:12cost of software is measurable. The cost
21:14of rekindled wildfire. That's something
21:17we don't ever want to have to pay again.
21:20So, with that, I'm going to give you
21:22guys my contact information. You got my
21:24email, my phone number, um, as well as
21:27my GitHub repo to that app that was made
21:30for the UAS mapping. Right now, I have
21:33it set to only work for three aircraft
21:35because I made it very aircraft specific
21:38because that's one less button that
21:39someone has to push. So, if you've got a
21:41Mavic 3 thermal, you've got an M300 350,
21:43or you've got an uh Mavic 4 thermal,
21:46it's already built for you, ready to go.
21:47And the source code's there. If you want
21:48to make it do something different, help
21:50yourself.
21:52So, we finish with I believe in the
21:54absolute value that TAC brings to any
21:57public safety entity. And to quote the
21:59tax syndicate godfather himself, TAC is
22:02the way. So at we got about five
22:05minutes. If anyone have any followup,
22:07any questions on how we've done things
22:08or
22:09>> First of all, that's astounding
22:10innovation
22:12and and it comes out of a firehouse. Did
22:14you guys was this grassroots kitchen
22:17table? Hey, we ought to be doing this
22:19sort of thing or did you get leadership
22:21above you going, we have a problem. We
22:24don't want to be in the press. that that
22:26it is 100% driven from uh in our
22:29organization we tend to push from the
22:30ground up but fortunately our top
22:32leaders uh share the vision that we have
22:35and when we come to them with something
22:37it's usually like all right let how can
22:39we support you how can we help you
22:41because we've already proven time and
22:43time again that these ideas we bring
22:44them are are something that save lives
22:47they save property they make a
22:49difference
22:50>> is is this a reflection of your
22:52leadership's commitment to this that
22:53they allow they fund and allow allow
22:55members of the agency to come and share
22:58the expertise with the broader
23:00community. So I think we all owe a debt
23:02of gratitude to to to the team. Um so I
23:06I have some questions but first let me
23:08give you guys the opportunity. Who would
23:10like to pose a question on this uh kind
23:13of remarkable technology?
23:19>> Uh Jason Eststerline with Help Now
23:21Project out of Florida. Um, Mike, what a
23:23great presentation. Um, you guys are
23:27definitely on the cutting edge. Um,
23:30seeing what happened with the Palisades
23:32fire previous to your guys' fire that
23:34you showed, I mean, do you see what you
23:36guys are doing? Is that going to be
23:38adopted, do you think, in larger
23:39departments like LA Fire Department,
23:41things like that?
23:42>> Absolutely. Um I I think because of that
23:45and the technology is now widely known,
23:48you're going to start seeing SOPs come
23:50out to where this will be a required
23:54item after certain fires.
24:00That was my question. Oh, gone it.
24:05I think it's remarkable.
24:08And let me ask is your agency unique in
24:10actually putting the technology on each
24:12piece of apparatus and then training and
24:15and expecting the crews to be able to
24:18operate the technology.
24:20>> Uh so far from what I've heard we are
24:23very unique in that when I talk to other
24:24agencies on how we've deployed but
24:26there's a UAS on every fire engine. Uh
24:29we've gone through a training program. I
24:31filed a a KOA for our entire operating
24:34area. And we have trained and certified
24:37every single firefighter that we have to
24:40be a COA pilot and fly under some uh
24:42tighter restrictions, but at any time
24:45anyone can pick up a drone and fly. It's
24:47not something that is typically seen by
24:49any other department and I hope that
24:51changes.
24:52>> Well, my my agency puts it on the CAD.
24:55So you always see in the call, oh US is
24:58part of the assignment because it's a,
24:59you know, this level of response.
25:03>> I've never seen anything show up with
25:05that kind of thing. So what do we do? We
25:07call the law enforcement. They know how
25:08to fly drones.
25:09>> We try to treat it no different than,
25:11you know, a chainsaw. It's a tool. It's
25:13a tool for you to use. And with the
25:15right training, it can be done
25:17effectively, efficiently, and safely.
25:20The Nova is Nova offtheshelf software or
25:23is this something that was uh bespoke
25:25created for the agency?
25:27>> No, this is offtheshelf. They are a
25:28commercial uh program. They're actually
25:31rapidly growing. We're seeing lots of
25:32fire agencies already uh adopting their
25:36software especially in Southern
25:37California post Palisades fire. It is it
25:40is really gaining some traction. But
25:43yeah, they they've been out for for
25:44quite a while now.
25:47>> All righty. When
25:52Hey, Mike. Uh, Ralph Kohler from I guess
25:54AFL. Um, Mike, uh, I'd like to challenge
25:58you. You said, "Hey, it saves a lot of
26:01time and a lot of money." Um, of course,
26:04we wish things worked on accountability
26:06and lives, but the budget people want to
26:08know about the money.
26:10>> Uh, maybe you don't know, but I'd love
26:12to see a report from you guys that says
26:14how much time and how much money and how
26:16much more responsive you are. Uh, I
26:18think that would be great for the whole
26:20environment in in helping us adopt
26:22things. And then I have a follow-up
26:24question. Um, do you would you be better
26:28off if you could do this even faster
26:30than the loop you just described or is
26:32it
26:33>> or is it because you're flying it at
26:35night and you're not doing hot spot
26:36putting out at night so it doesn't
26:37matter?
26:38>> So t typically um this is a it's not a
26:42rapid process. It is at this point the
26:45fire has for lack of a better term it
26:48it's been put out now we need to make
26:50sure it stays out so it is a very slow
26:53methodical portion you know a task at
26:55this time there's no need for urgency
26:58but there's definitely ways to optimize
27:01anytime I can get an operator to have to
27:02do less button pushes less things to do
27:04like you know
27:07challenge to the uh UAS tool guys I
27:10would love to do my flight mapping
27:13all in UAS tool for the DJI. I would
27:16love just to be able to do that polygon
27:18and say go map it and be done, but we're
27:21not there.
27:26>> And then you'd like to have the results
27:27before you land and have them right into
27:30TAC right away.
27:31>> Yep.
27:34>> This is why we like Ralph.
27:36>> Yeah. I will say real quick, so you
27:39mentioned the cost thing and the one
27:40thing that's very hard with any of this
27:42stuff is you can't really measure the
27:44cost of the damage that never happened
27:46because of the software. You'll never
27:48know what fire didn't burn, what houses
27:51didn't go, what lives weren't lost. So
27:53that's that's the hard part to really
27:56articulate to those that are looking at
27:58the bottom line.
28:00>> All righty. Well, please join me in
28:02thanking Mike for giving us a peek at
28:05the future as it should be.

About this transcript

This page contains the full transcript of What the Palisades Fire Taught Corona FD About Mop-Up | Michael Leckliter by TAK Public Safety, generated from the public captions YouTube serves with the video. The transcript has 4,394 words across 690 segments, with the original timestamps preserved so you can click any line to jump to that moment in the embedded player.

What you can do with it

Use the transcript to take notes, quote the speaker, build a study guide, generate a summary with ChatGPT or Claude via the YouTube Summary tool, or export it as a timed subtitle file with YouTube to SRT. You can also re-open it in the transcriber to translate the transcript into 100+ languages.

Free YouTube transcript tool

YouTube2Text is a free YouTube transcript generator — no signup, no daily limit. Paste any YouTube link and get the full transcript instantly, with timestamps, click-to-jump, translation to 100+ languages, AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, or Markdown.