Duke Energy deploys drones in effort to restore power after Hurricane Irma

Published September 16, 2017 4:20 PM EDT

More than a million Central Florida customers lost power when Hurricane Irma roared through the region.

Duke Energy had a sizeable chunk of those.

This week, the company deployed a relatively new tool as it began assessing and fixing the damage.

Fox 35's Tom Johnson takes you to the flight line with one of Duke Energy's squadron of drones.