Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

He means several idiots are out at the fires flying their drones near the fires trying to get footage of "cool fire videos" to sell to the TV networks or get hits on YouTube, and it is deadly dangerous for the pilots of the aircraft trying to fight the fires.

A bird strike is bad, but image a several pound carbon fiber and lithium batteries power-pack whacking a windshield of a chopper, or going into the engine, or hitting a vital part. The human pilots have a job to help fight the fire, but every pilot's job one is to go home to bed at the end of the day alive and well.

The idiots flying the drones are illegally flying in areas where it makes the firefighting pilots stop, and that cause more and bigger fires, and more death and destruction for the residents.