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The early detection of forest fires reduces the rate of their spread to larger areas by speeding up their extinguishing with the help of equipment and materials for early detection. In this research, an early detection system for forest fires is proposed called Forest Defender Fusion. This system achieved high accuracy and long-term monitoring of the site by using the Intermediate Fusion VGG16 model and Enhanced Consumed Energy-Leach protocol (ECP-LEACH). The Intermediate Fusion VGG16 model receives RGB (red, green, blue) and IR (infrared) images from drones to detect forest fires. The Forest Defender Fusion System provides regulation of energy consumption in drones and achieves high detection accuracy so that forest fires are detected early. The detection model was trained on the FLAME 2 dataset and obtained an accuracy of 99.86%, superior to the rest of the models that track the input of RGB and IR images together. 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