A garden shed was seen in flames on Spring Court in Runcorn on 21st July, at around 6:’40am. Firefighters responded to the call as they started investigating the cause of the fire. Before the fire men left, they used a thermal imaging camera to check and made sure that the flames had not spread to [...]
A sum of $2,500 was received by the Piper City Fire Department as a donation from the Monsanto Fund’s America’s Farmers Grow Communities program. This is they used to acquire a thermal imaging camera. . The thermal imaging camera according to Fire Chief Anthony Lane, will improve their department’s ability to find people who are [...]
Fire men were called to put out flames that had taken hold within the bedroom of a terraced bungalow on St. Georges Crescent, Bodmin yesterday at 1.40am. Two occupants even though suffered smoke inhalation managed to escape the flames and were taken care of by the ambulance personnel. The fire crew who came from Bodwin [...]
Appleton’s fire department is now using high-tech technologies to find accident victims. The fire department used a thermal imaging detector to find an accident victim who was thrown from a car during its rollover. The firefighters admit that thermal imaging cameras are a great tool in any emergency situation. . Source: nbc26.com .
The Manhatan Beach Firefighters on Friday 28th June at 5:55am used thermal imaging cameras to fight fire. Neighbors reported to have seen flames and smoke coming from the outside of a wall in a residential home. . Source: tbrnews.com . On entry, the firefighters realized the house was filled with smoke. They searched the house [...]
Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of Calofornia, San Diego have developed new techniques to help improve methods used in fire fighting. They have created small mobile robots that will take thermal data with an in-built infrared camera. This data will then be mapped onto a 3D scene constructed from images taken [...]
The Alaska Volcano Observatory again earlier this week raised the alert level for the Pavlof Volcano to orange. This is due to an increasing chance that the Aleutian Chain volcano will erupt. An evidence of this was collected on May 13 when thermal imaging was used to reveal that the volcano was heating up. Satellite [...]
FLIR is still expanding the scope of applications for its thermal imaging cameras. With the introduction of the A-Series which is celebrated in a newly published e-book, FLIR’s thermal imaging technology can now work in the most hostile environments. These improvements allow the cameras to work round-the-clock without additional lighting. They can even work where [...]
Thermal imaging safety system has been installed in the Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Istanbul, Turkey. This system will automatically shut down the conveyor belts as soon as a person enters the baggage handling are. . Source: vision-systems.com . This measure has been taken to ensure the safety of children who escape their parents’ sight and [...]
NASA has again used its MASTER instrument to capture an infrared composite image of California’s Powerhouse Fire. MASTER is a facility instrument of the NASA Earth Science Division which is operated by the Airborne Sensor Facility at Ames Research Center. In different colours, the image captured by this instrument shows the intensity of the heat [...]
