Do you like neat gadgets? Check out the Midland, Texas, Fire Department's new Bullard T3MAX Thermal Imaging Camera. The camera provides a picture of heat so a firefighter with one of these can spot humans in a smoke filled room or find remaining hot spots at the scene of a fire that was extinguished.
A foundation grant kicked off the purchase of the new $11,000 camera, and it was a bargain compared to the old cameras the MFD is trying to replace. The old ones ran about $18,000 apiece.
MFD Fire Chief Jeff Meiner demonstrated the new camera today, and you can see it and an old one in the photos. The new T3MAX has features the older ones didn't have, for example, a thermal throttle to add color to the picture and avoid an image washed out by too much heat.
The new ones are cheaper, smaller, and better. Ain't technology wonderful?
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