Like a Phoenix: California’s Paradise Rebuilds With Help From DJI and General Pacific

Charles Brooks slung his pick-ax into the soil. It was a simple job, leveling some ground for landscaping. (He’s also pretty handy with an Enterprise drone, and we’ll get to that shortly.) 

It felt good. That’s because it wasn’t just any pick-ax, and it wasn’t just any earth. 

That tool, now sporting a new hickory handle, had first been in the hands of his grandfather. It had been handed down, over many decades, until it had reached Charles. It’s already been in the hands of one of his sons, currently aged 9 and 11. That makes four generations who have touched this tool.