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Hall County Fire Rescue added a robot to its dive team. Now more than half the divers have resigned
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In a reversal, Hall County Fire Services plans to revive its dive team about a year after it announced it would rely solely on a drone. In a file photo dive team members Jacob Trites and Tyler Bailey search for a vehicle after a car was spotted in Lake Lanier at Mountain View Park. - photo by Erin O. Smith
More than half of the divers on Hall County’s Marine Rescue Team resigned earlier this month after the fire department announced that it would replace them with a $100,000 underwater drone for search and rescue missions.