OPERATE. >> Reporter: THESE TWO WATERCRAFT CAN RACE AT 52 MILES AN HOUR. LET ME LAY THE NUMBERS ON YOU AS YOU LOOK AT LAKE WASHINGTON FROM THE KOMO4 DRONE, SEATTLE FIREFIGHTERS CAN SPEED TO NORTHERN MOST SECTION OF THE LAKE IN 11 MINUTES, SEWER PARK IN 8. >> WE CAN GET IN AND OUT OF MARINA, INTO SHORES, THERE IS NO WHERE WE CAN'T ACCESS, WHICH IS THE ADVANTAGE OF A SMALL CRAFT. >> Reporter: NOW IF THERE IS A SWIMMER IN TROUBLE, TRAINED OPERATORS WILL RACE OUT WITH THE RESCUE SWIMMER AS DEMONSTRATED HERE, WHILE FIREFIGHTER MEDICS WAIT ONSHORE TO TREAT THE VICTIM. >> THINK YOU CAN WALK WITHOUT ASSISTANCE? >> Reporter: 20 FIREFIGHTERS WENT THROUGH 20 HOURS OF TRAINING TO OPERATE THESE WATER CRAFT, PLUS SEATTLE FIRE HAS 61 TRAINED RESCUE SWIMMERS. >> OUR RESCUE SWIMMERS CAPABILITY IS GOING 300 FOOT OFFSHORE, JUST A SWIMMER, BUT THIS NOW CREATES ALMOST LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES. >> Reporter: EACH VESSEL IS $40,000 BUT DID NOT COME OUT OF THE CHIEF'S BUDGET, THE SEATTLE FIRE FOUNDATION BOUGHT THESE. BUT WHAT ABOUT SEATTLE POLICE, AND ITS PATROL? AND RESCUE BOATS? >> WE WOULD INTERFACE WITH THEM, WE HAVE HAD RESPONSES WHERE WE HAVE PICKED UP PERSONNEL, WE HAVE PICKED UP OUR DIVERS, AND TRANSPORTED THEM TO HARBOR PATROL. THEY ARE A LARGER VESSEL AND BETTER SUITED FOR MULTIPLE PEOPLE. >> Reporter: THIS IS ONLY ONE-YEAR PILOT PROGRAM BUT THE CAPTAIN TELLS ME HE ALREADY