Avalanches: drones with thermal cameras, this cutting-edge tool for finding buried bodies. In Isola 2000 (Alpes-Maritimes), police officers from the CRS Alpes Maralpin detachment trained for the first time on Thursday.
Equipped with a thermal camera, the machine detects the heat of a human body caught under approximately one meter of snow. The drone flies over the area and poses no risk, either for the victims or for the rescuers. It was with their help that the body of a hiker, aged around fifty and reported missing after a snowshoe outing in Isola2000, was found on January 22.