Laser Thermometer Gun

do firefighters have an infrared laser thermometer gun used to determine the heat of a fire/?

i was thinking this would be valuable with tanker fires if they know the contents of the tanker then they could determine the combustion point and get their men out before an explosion occurs.

My department has two types of equipment to measure heat.

One is a small gun shaped thermometer that shoots out a laser, and has a small LCD screen to tell you the temperature of what you are aiming at.

The other thing we use is the thermal imagining camera. Like the laser thermometer, this also gives us a digital read out of the temperature, but gives us a digitized view of where the camera is looking, displaying cooler colors as black and gray, and hotter colors as orange, red and white.

This allows us to be able to, in the example you've given, see the entire tanker in one view, see which points are the hottest and which are the coolest. We can then also use the placards to determine ignition temperatures and work to keep the tanker under that temperature.

However, if we had a tanker accident and there was something flammable inside, I would not care what the temperature of the tanker was, I wouldn't be getting any closer than I had to to do the job.

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