Drones used during response to Amtrak derailment in Vermont

Two interesting articles that detail how Vermont use of drones to assist authorities after Amtrak's Vermonter went of the rails on October 5th:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... lment.html

http://letters-sal.blogspot.com/2015/10 ... train.html

I could imagine that this was very helpful considering the location of the crash.