i can see where the fire is and what it's doing, potentially hazards come uppinging up and maybe advantageous areas to get the firefighters to. >> that potentially life-saving information is being put to use here. >> really, big operation here. >> at the california rim fire's incident command center near yosemite national park. >> this is the air national guard mobile emergency operation center we rolled out here in order to help facilitate coordination and command and control of remotely piloted aircraft operations here in incident. this is where all the magic happens. >> all right. >> it can throw embers up to as much of a mile ahead of it. we do a wide scan first, and we zoom in on any heat signatures we find. one of the biggest advantages was the able to geolocate the fire line. infrared imagery has been around for a while, but to transit those to us here, we can transfer them to a map and make it readily available invaluable. >> we're looking at the full-motion video from the mq-1 predator. in this picture right here, you can see how the smoke is masking the fire, so it's hard to determi