Tarrytown borders the Hudson River to our west where the new multi billion dollar Mario Cuomo Bridge has just replaced the over 60 year old Tappan Zee Bridge. This project coupled with vast riverfront development within our borders and just to the north in Sleepy Hollow NY would be the ideal area to utilize any sized drone for river rescue, major incident response, and inter agency response. ” said 1st Assistant Fire Chief Bryan Meade of the Tarrytown Fire Department.

Autel Robotics, FoxFury Lighting Solutions and NPS-DDP understands every second matters in emergency situations. UAV and drone technology provide lifesaving assistance to public safety departments when emergency calls. Unfortunately, many public safety departments across the nation cannot afford to purchase UAV /drones, as the cost of the technology is very high and/or not budgeted for, this forces many departments to simply go without. NPS-DDP.org hoped to alleviate this issue when establishing the National Public Safety Drone Donation Program (NPS-DDP.org), a first of its kind in the world UAV/drone donation program whereby public safety departments may apply to receive a free UAV/drone at no cost to the department. Tarrytown Fire Department has been chosen as one of thirteen recipients of a drone that has been generously donated to the NPS-DDP program by our partner supporter AUTEL Robotics.

In addition, FoxFury Lighting Solutions is donating an FAA approved drone lighting kit which allows illumination for night operations. We welcome all media coverage, we wish to help educate the funding municipalities and the general public of the importance of these tools. The goal of the National Public Safety Drone donation Program and our supporting partners is to help “put eyes in the sky for every department in need”™️