A drone flies as the sun shines during a press presentation of Swiss disaster dog association Redog on combined search and rescue with drones and dogs outside Zurich on August 23, 2017. Redog, a Swiss rescue dog organization, has been working with drones for a year to facilitate search and rescue missions, reporting encouraging results. / AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI
As they flew a fleet of drones over flood-ravaged Texas to aid rescuers and inspect levees, Robin Murphy and her team of disaster-response veterans expected to be operating in nearly empty skies.
What they saw instead when they called up a drone-tracking application in Fort Bend County southwest of Houston were whirling flocks of camera-carrying vehicles flying in spite of a federal prohibition on all but a handful of specially approved operations.
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