One challenge is always to keep firefighters safe in hot and dangerous conditions. Forest fires can become so hot that firefighters must back away from the blaze and focus their efforts on containment rather than extinguishing the fire.
Engineers at Howe and Howe Technologies in Waterboro, Maine, have developed the Thermite, a firefighting robot that can battle wildfires where firefighters cannot.
According to Howe and Howe鈥檚 website, 鈥淭he Thermite is a durable, compact, and self-contained fire-fighting and emergency response robot capable of handling situations and blazes that, up until now, needed to be tended rather than fought.鈥�
The US Navy is also testing a firefighting robot that could help battle fires aboard ships.
