{"id":5796,"date":"2022-07-14T16:28:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:28:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:28:37","slug":"drone-light-shows-safer-and-more-dazzling-than-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/drone-light-shows-safer-and-more-dazzling-than-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Light Shows:\u00a0 Safer and More Dazzling Than Fireworks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vLXqM1KsS6s\" width=\"740\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\nJuly 4th fireworks displays are dazzling and exciting, especially for kids, but they can be dangerous when not properly supervised.\u00a0 A report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released last month found that injuries due to mishandled fireworks climbed 25% between 2006 and 2021.\u00a0 In addition, wildland fires and property damage caused by burning remnants of fireworks are a growing risk.\u00a0 In 2018 alone. an estimated 19,500 fires due to fireworks were reported to local U.S. fire departments.\u00a0 And just last month, in California, 9 of the state\u2019s 30 wildland blazes \u2013 a whopping 30% \u2013 were traced to firework displays.\u00a0 As summers grow drier and hotter, a growing number of localities are looking for alternatives to their annual July 4 fireworks events.<\/p>\n<p>Some are finding them in drone \u201clight shows.\u201d\u00a0 Last month in Colorado, several towns canceled their annual July 4 fireworks celebrations in favor of elaborate synchronized movements of drones.\u00a0 Each show was relatively short, about 12 minutes, but the drones, as many as 500 in one show, put on impressive displays of aerial prowess,\u00a0 in some cases mimicking fireworks explosions.\u00a0 Some drone shows also featured a representation of the Statue of Liberty and other Independence Day emblems and symbols.\u00a0 Loudspeakers from the drones also blasted theme music.\u00a0 But there were no loud noise eruptions, smoke or debris.<\/p>\n<p>A Denver-based company, Hire UAV Pro, organized the drone shows, and news of its activities has already promoted a flurry of drone bookings for next year\u2019s Independence Day event, the company says.\u00a0 Drone light shows appear to be catching on elsewhere.\u00a0 Cities in Ohio, Texas and California also sponsored their own July 4th events.\u00a0 Most are locales where fireworks displays have previously set off wildland fires that caused dozens of injuries and millions of dollars in property damage.\u00a0 So far, the response from local citizens has been overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n<p>Drone shows are not only safer than fireworks displays, they\u2019re\u00a0 also much cleaner, their supporters say.\u00a0 They leave behind no debris so there is less clean-up involved.\u00a0 And because high-decibel explosions are eliminated, they are less likely to scare animals or people, especially elders who often avoid loud fireworks displays.\u00a0 The main downside of the shows may be their expense.\u00a0 A typical local fireworks event may cost as little as $2,000.\u00a0 However, companies like Hire UAV Pro charge a hefty $25,000 to put on an elaborate drone light show.\u00a0 Without additional funding, the added expenses may exceed the entertainment budgets of most small towns.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, July 4th isn\u2019t the only possible venue for a drone light show.\u00a0 Last May, Vivid 2022, an event billed as the \u201clargest drone light show in the entire Southern hemisphere,\u201d wowed the residents of Sydney, Australia.\u00a0 Hundreds of drones equipped with lights depicted the spaceship from the \u201cStar Trek\u201d series flying over the city\u2019s harbor.\u00a0 Other depicted images included Chase, the German shepherd featured in the popular UK series PAW Control. The display was broadcast on YouTube and seen by millions of viewers across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their prodigious expense, drone light shows are likely the wave of the future, marketers say.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2020, the drone light show market was valued at just USD $2.6 billion in 2020, slightly less than the global fireworks market.\u00a0 But with a compound annual growth rate of 21%, the drone light show market is projected to reach USD $12.3 billion by 2028, about four times the size of the global fireworks market by that same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff July 4th fireworks displays are dazzling and exciting, especially for kids, but they can be dangerous when not properly supervised.\u00a0 A report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released last month found that injuries due to mishandled fireworks climbed 25% between 2006 and 2021.\u00a0 In addition, wildland fires and property damage caused by&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/drone-light-shows-safer-and-more-dazzling-than-fireworks\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}