[Alex Deslauriers watched the Downton Lake wildfire in 2023 where his home was destroyed by the fire.] Since then, Deslauriers, an aerospace engineer, has been focused on just one thing: how to make sure it never happens again. …He shifted his entire career, almost overnight, to solving the problem. …Now there is: firefighting drones. …Now his company, FireSwarm Solutions, is adapting a Swedish-made jet engine-powered heavy-lift UAV (Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle) to fight wildfires. FireSwarm has partnered with Strategic Natural Resource Group, an Indigenous-owned company based in Prince George that specializes in forestry, emergency response and remote site development, to bring the drones to the frontlines of firefighting. …Rapid wildfire growth at night is an emerging phenomenon that has become increasingly problematic… That nighttime gap in firefighting response is exactly what Deslauriers wanted to address