Firefighters in Euless credit a drone for helping them successfully rescue a woman in her 90s during a house fire Thursday morning.
The fire in the 1200 block of El Camino Real happened just after 1:00 a.m.
Chief Chanc Bennett tells NBC 5 that technology helped dispatch determine the intensity of the fire so firefighters knew just what they were up against.
“The drone got here, hovered over the scene before we got here. They sent a video. Dispatch was the first one to see the video, and they were able to tell us that fire was already through the roof, so that we already knew we were going to need extra help,” Bennett said.
That information prompted the call for a second alarm to put more firefighters on scene.
Bennett says firefighters rescued the woman inside and got her out of the house through a window.
There’s no immediate information about her, but Bennett says she was in good condition at the scene.