"If you're Flying, we can not." This slogan used by the US Forest Service is trying to scare off the owners of hobby Drones from flying them near fires.

But at least a few people in Colorado could not resist powering their quadcopter and flying them around a burning land in the last few days, apparently to capture video footage from a smoke landscape

A number of fires currently burn parts of the state, and authorities indicate how unauthorized drones make it difficult to stop fires with manned airplanes.

"[It’s] is not distracting anyone," said Steve Hall of the Colorado Bureau of Land Management on the Denver channel. "[We] had to shut down operations because someone was flying a drone in a limited airspace."

Fire engines could not take off at least an hour ago, while officials tried to track down drones responsible for flights. No arrests reported so far

Speaking of danger, Hall said: "If the airborne equipment moves quickly and hits the drone, it will cause significant damage and will really pose a security problem for this pilot."

He added that a grounding plane could mean "ten drops of tanker [and]", explaining that although it may not sound much, "it can make a huge difference during a fire."

Drones caused many problems for firemen fighting harmful fire in California last year. To combat such fires a range of manned aircraft is used, with helicopters and cisterns of air with various sizes of water-dropping and fire-fighting measures to combat fires

There is also a SuperTanker. Named the "world's largest fire extinguisher", the SuperTanker is a modified Boeing 747 capable of dropping up to 20,000 gallons of fire-resistant at a time. In the case of observing the drone during the operation, none of these aircraft can fly until the airspace is considered safe.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) warns drone operators that they can be hit by "significant" penalties if they interfere with emergency response operations using their flying machines.

"Flying an unauthorized drone in or around a natural disaster may violate federal, state, or local laws and ordinances, even if a temporary flight restriction does not exist," the FAA says on its website, adding: "Let the first rescuers save life and property without obstacles