Seeking Innovations for Urban Firefighting

[u/Due-Department7555]

Hi everyone,

I'm a cadet with the Military Fire Department in Brazil. For my thesis, I'm looking for innovative technologies and procedures to improve our urban firefighting operations (or some general structures implementations).

I'm hoping to learn from your experiences.

What's a piece of equipment or technology that has significantly enhanced your department's effectiveness in urban environments? (e.g., thermal cameras, cutting tools, or data systems).

What procedural or structural change has made a major impact on how you handle large-scale urban fires?

Your insights are invaluable and could help shape the future of firefighting in my home state.

Thanks for your help!

[u/Apprehensive_Tune65]

In Hamburg, they just put out a major industrial fire involving exploding gas containers using thermal imaging on drones and mounted on ladder trucks, used a swimming platform as a high volume water supply and the craziest of all, used tracked robots to enter the danger zone and put out the last fires. Fire robot on the German news