# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 14 August 2011 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Local |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | quadcopter |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Longview Daily News (Longview, Washington) |
| Title | Flying right into the fire |
| Dateline | Longview, Washington |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/577221367/?terms=quadcopter |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2011-08-14|longview-daily-news|maple-terrace-quadcopter-fire |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page: 2011-08-14-longview-daily-news-quadcopter-fire-page.jpg
- photo 1: 2011-08-14-longview-daily-news-quadcopter-fire-photo-1.jpg
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U9vqOy5tmxAI-5y7Uyjb3iP6t3U53K83


## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Barbara LaBoe of The Daily News reported that Saturday’s training burn of Longview’s Maple Terrace Apartments drew dozens of firefighters, more than 100 spectators — and three mini helicopters. Remote-controlled quadcopters equipped with high-definition cameras and video transmitters: square machines about the size of a laptop computer with a helicopter rotor and landing gear on each corner. They are part hobby and part business for Portlanders Patrick Sherman and Brian Zvaigzne, who call themselves Roswell Flight Test Crew. Ideally they hope to someday see the machines used by firefighters and law enforcement. Saturday the quadcopters were able to fly into the smoke above the burning building and provide real-time video images of the fire. Sherman, described as a public relations officer for law enforcement, said it lets you peek over the top of a structure fire or help track a wildfire, and in hazmat situations you sometimes can’t get within a quarter mile of the site but the copter can. Another company hired them to shoot video; firefighting equipment company International Fog Inc. was demonstrating a piercing fire hose nozzle. They have been flying the machines for about seven months and are still revising the design. “We’re still in the prototype stage,” Sherman said. “And it’s a hobby.” Caption, photos by Bill Wagner / The Daily News: a remote-controlled quadcopter flies near the burning Maple Terrace Apartments transmitting video with the attached high-definition camera; Brian Zvaigzne, left, gets his quadcopter airborne as Patrick Sherman prepares his for liftoff; the quadcopters stream live images to the men’s goggle headsets and computer screens so they and others can watch the fire in real time.

**Kinematic object.** Hobby/prototype camera quadcopters (Roswell Flight Test Crew — Maple Terrace training burn).

**Coverage frame.** civil / public-safety demo

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Longview Daily News staff byline on a local training-burn quadcopter demo.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written. No AP/Reuters/McClatchy byline.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract; story column interleaves with a traffic-patrol brief. Deck “Training exercise is a chance to test new technology” was readable. A few mid-word cuts.
- What was excluded: Adjacent fire/boat brief and the Cowlitz speeding-patrol notes.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged a 2011 civilian quadcopter flying live HD video into structural-fire smoke at a municipal training burn.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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