LAGUNA NIGUEL -- Sen. Patricia Bates, R-Laguna Niguel, has co-authored a bill making it a crime to fly a drone over a wildfire, she announced today.
SB 167 is intended to keep drones from causing a crash with emergency vehicles such as helicopters or planes that fight fires.
"Firefighters face tremendous risk, and the last thing they need is to have a drone get in their way and potentially cause a catastrophic crash of public safety aircraft," Bates said.