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On top of the Canadair 415 damaged by a drone while fire fighting in Southern California earlier this year...

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...-super-scooper
Within the first week of the outbreak of the fires, Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief Robert Harris told reporters that officials had already detected four dozen privately-owned drones flying over the fires. At least three people were arrested as a result, police officials said at the time.

In one case, the pilot of a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft on the third day of the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unsafe drone operation, federal officials announced
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