PowerPoint of emerging technology in the fire service.

1. Emerging Fire Technology
FROM HERE TO THE FUTURE

2. Drones
• Built in infrared imaging helps find wildfires and
hot spots
• Help plan suppression strategies
• Birds eye view of structural damage
• Map out areas of natural disaster
• Drone in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km0IDz6iIOc

3. TRX Tracking System
 Acts as an “indoor” GPS
 Monitors firefighter’s location inside a structure
 Displays name, photo, ambient temp, & status
 Locate downed firefighter in seconds
 Generations building map on the fly
Website: http://www.trxsystems.com/

4. Cyber-Physical Systems
 Ever increasing amount building sensors
and real time community data
 Research is developing on how to tap
that data and relay to firefighters and
other emergency responders.
 Improves overall safety and effective
decision making
NFPA Web Site: Smart Firefighting Workshop Report
NIST Web Site: Smart Firefighting Project

5. Simulator for All Jurisdictions
 Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment (EDGE)
 Virtual Training
 DHS S&T Working to make it available to all (Free)
 Scalable, Comprehensive, Tailored
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6. FIT-5
 Fire Interruption Technology (FIT)
 Fire extinguishing “grenade”
 Releases potassium carbonate to eliminate oxygen in the
environment
 Can fully extinguish a class B fire in a 2,100 ft3 room
 Reduces temperatures from 1,000 ⁰ to 300⁰ F in 10 sec.
 Better for enclosed spaces or to help buy time for egress.

7. Robotic Exoskeletons
 Under development by University of Berkley
Robotics
 BLEEX 1 (Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton
 Ability to climb stairs carrying many times the
weight of gear, hose, or rescues
 Still in infancy and decades away from
implementation.