roadside assistance for lost pets the idea behind a Tri-State nonprofit picking up steam across the state WCPO 9 news reporter mine OT explains how you can take advantage of the service if your pet goes missing the organization was started by professional firefighters who fly these heavy duty drones for a living now they're taking the same principles used to save human lives to save lost pets it's sort of like the old adage a firef saving a cat from a tree they're looking for any hope that they
can find their pet except in this case those firefighters are using high-tech tools the Drone I'm flying with all the accessories is about 18,500 to scan over half a mile of terrain any given moment we started picking up dog rescues on the side human life would pull us away from the dog rescues so we wanted to find a way to build up the dog rescue portion enter phot tracker. org Todd May started the organization in 2021 the Drone Pilots are normally on scene within about 60 Minutes their success
rate around 70% once we locate that heat signature we zoom in on it to confirm that that's the dog you don't understand until it happens to you till your loved one is missing your pet goes missing that's a family member Stephanie does experienced that firsthand there's Cricket Moco lost in Caesar Creek State Park late 2022 hours before Sub-Zero temperatures rolled in thought that there was no way that they could survive the night a plea on Facebook led to Todd's stepping in he called me at like
3:00 a.m. and was like Hey you know I have some equipment they were in like this this brush Thicket there's no way we would have been able to see them without the Drone the service costs eight bucks a month but the majority of Pilots are volunteers Public Safety should be free right uh but it's very difficult because we have a lot of bills as a nonprofit it serves a handful of counties in our area but Todd hopes to expand Statewide maybe farther every dog owner is different some of them it's it
's a pat on the back and other ones it's just tears of joy if you live in one of the counties that this organization serves you can visit phot tracker. org to sign up mateline Elly WCPO 9 News
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