New Civil Defence DJI Matrice 30T Drone
The Civil Defence recently compiled the necessary paperwork to register Kilkenny County Council as a complex organisation with the Irish Aviation Authority for the use of the drones in Fire and Rescue and Civil Defence.
The Civil Defence unit will be taking ownership of a new DJI Matrice 30T Drone this year, fully funded by the Department of Defence to assist with missing person searches.
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This new drone will have thermal imagining which is highly important and a first for Kilkenny Civil Defence.
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