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Re:Drones visit California wildfire, angering firefighters by Malstrond on Sunday July 19, 2015 @09:09AM (#9911079)
According to a reddit post the sighting might actually have been due to a fully legal RC field in the area.

https://pay.reddit.com/r/Multicopter/comments/3dqoyh/multico...

Re:Drones visit California wildfire, angering firefighters by tzs on Sunday July 19, 2015 @11:54PM (#9913912)
That seems unlikely to me. The RC field is over 12 miles from the nearest fire location, and 8 miles outside the boundary of the TFR.
Re:Drones visit California wildfire, angering firefighters by dogma1138 on Sunday July 19, 2015 @08:56PM (#9913493)
The RC field would've received a grounding notice from the FAA, like any other private / civilian field.

Emergency areas are cleared for emergency flights only and their airspace is restricted, even news copters cannot go into that space and many of them were fined and even licenses were revoked when they violated the restrictions.