NPS-DDP.org Mission is to help keep Search & Rescue ( SAR) / Public Safety & Communities Safer through Drone Technology

The National Public Safety Drone Donation Program (NPS-DDP.org) was established to address the critical need for life-saving drone technology in underfunded public safety departments nationwide. Shockingly, approximately 73% of all fire departments in the USA rely entirely on volunteers, highlighting the significant challenges they face.

These dedicated men and women willingly risk their lives to protect and serve our communities. Now, you have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. Please consider making a modest donation today to support our mission in providing essential drone technology to those who selflessly contribute to our safety.
Your contribution, no matter the size, plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of our program and, most importantly, in keeping our communities safe.

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The Drone Donation Request

Greetings to all and thank you for this opportunity to ask for much-needed support to carry out our volunteer search and rescue (SAR) missions. My name is Michael Parziale, a fully licensed FAA private pilot, FAA-certified remote UAV pilot, a former ambulance corps member and a 2nd generation business owner in our town for over 56 years. We are based in Manasquan New Jersey in the County of Monmouth. Manasquan is a coastal community that swells from 5300 full-time residents to over 15,000 summer residents. This doesn’t take into account the tourists that visit our town beaches and community on a beautiful sunny day from 20-30,000 people. Monmouth County is roughly 470 square miles that is covered by one drone response team from the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Department. Our Unmanned Search And Rescue or “U.S.A.R.” is a fully self-funded group under the auspices of a Non-Profit 501(c)3. My goal is to give back to our community by providing a SAR drone responder team free of charge to not only Manasquan but any agency or town requesting our specialized services free of charge. I have already earmarked donating my late model Toyota 4x4 Tundra pickup to be outfitted at my expense for SAR missions.
Firstly, our County search team once notified, is approximately 1.5 hours from actual boots-on-the-ground searching and drone launch at minimum. The way they operate is the County Sheriff’s UAV pilots are called in from home or their job, have to go to the County station, pick up their response vehicle with the drones, and then go to the area of need. This delayed response could result in precious minutes to save lives especially if there is a missing person being swept out to sea or even a child being kidnapped. Unfortunately, this happens all too frequently along coastal waters. In addition, the County SAR team could be on another mission and not available at all.
Our goal is twofold;
Firstly, we plan on being deployed and launched within 10-15 minutes once called since our area of coverage is much smaller on a 24/7 basis. We will be traveling with our equipment to whoever is on duty so no need to go pick it up and then respond. Our deployment area is an 8–10 mile radius of our surrounding community of Manasquan. Our local volunteer fire departments are already burdened with keeping and maintaining their squads and figured I could help assist them along with local Police department needs with SAR drones free of charge. Our rapid deployment strategy is to assist multiple communities that do not have aerial reconnaissance or the needed funding to keep everything up to date. In addition, they won’t have to have several shifts of FAA-certified Part 107 UAV pilots, insurance, and equipment costs 24/7. The Police department will save tens of thousands of dollars per year because they will be on overtime if no shift pilot is on duty. Not to mention paying Police officers overtime to attend certification for the Part 107 licensing. Frankly, they could use that money to hire additional Police officers.

This leads me to the second part and what I think is a unique unexpected benefit for our community residents. I plan on spearheading and outfitting unemployed Veterans, their families, and civilians with our SAR teams.
On downtime from SAR missions, we will utilize the drones to start career training paths for the Vets in aerial surveying, mapping, LiDar, photogrammetry, thermal inspections such as solar panels, house heat loss analysis, and utility company infrastructure inspections. The list is endless and expanding for a myriad of industries. The training we provide to our Veterans are free and gives them the much-needed tools and experience for possibly very lucrative careers. Our group will be self-funding in the future because this will create our team members having an income along with the blessing of saving lives. A win-win for all.

Our most important needs are of course the specialized UAV drones that are all-weather capable drones for SAR missions that can also be used for career building. The specialized drones with hybrid thermal camera payloads for missions is our sire need. If these drones are also capable of changing payloads for mapping, LiDar work, etc. as explained previously, it would be wonderful.
Our ultimate rapid deployment strategy is to assist multiple communities that do not have aerial reconnaissance nor the needed funding. We will cross all local town zones for whoever needs our service without cost to any community. We are striving to build successive drone teams to make FAST RESPONSE TEAMS Statewide for every community in our State. Our wish list is to branch out and initiate this same program Nationwide, which with this initial kickstart help from NPS-DDP anything is possible.

In Mr. Langley’s letter I found most enlightening is from "2 Corinthians 8:14;
“but that by means of an equalizing, your surplus at the present time might offset their need, so that their surplus might also offset your
deficiency, that there may be an equalizing.”
Together we can create this “equalizing” one donation at a time! "
I couldn’t agree more.
Thank you for your support and interest to all our communities! You are all doing such altruistic work in the eyes from above. To give the tools to save a life is reward enough.

Sincerely,

Michael A. Parziale
Team leader at U.S.A.R: Drone responders
Video_Link: https://youtu.be/2X_fzooiAxw

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