According to Haye Kesteloo Jul. 30th 2019 In 2017 alone, 166 U.S.

workers died in confined

spaces and a staggering 887 were killed by falls. Many of these jobs can be done by drones
and robots and thus keep workers away from dangerous situations. Robots and drones can
safely go into confined spaces or fly up to dangerous heights to perform inspections that
previously had to be done manually. Even though the number of commercial drones exploded to
277,000 in 2018, there are nowhere near enough of the unnamed aircraft to cover all the
dangerous jobs in the country.

According to the National Fire Protection Association, there were 29,130 injuries reported while
fighting fire in 2015. These injuries are also coupled with 68 on-duty deaths. Injuries and
casualties are the reason why safety professionals, the government and high-tech companies
have come together in order to create firefighting robots that can perform tasks too risky for
people.

According to emi controls The TAF35 firefighting robot is made up of a firefighting turbine
mounted on a caterpillar vehicle. The firefighting robot can be operated by remote control, is
very agile and can be used in many ways.

The turbine is fitted with an external nozzle ring, which atomizes water into a fine mist and then
distributes it using a propeller. The water mist draws the heat from the fire very quickly and
significantly reduces the temperature. The remote control increases the level of safety for the
firefighters engaged in the work. On the one hand, the firefighters do not have to enter the area
of immediate danger, and on the other, as in cases like tunnel fires, the firefighting vehicle can
go in, in advance of the fire crew, who can then follow at a safe distance.

The fleet of firefighting robots in China is growing steadily: in April 2019, we delivered another
six "TAF20" tracked vehicles to Nanchang. In total, several dozen extinguishing robots from
emicontrols are already in use in China.

To protect the local subway from fires, Nanchang has purchased six tracked vehicles with
extinguishing turbine. All six units are equipped with a fully automatic railway kit, which can be
unfolded with ease via remote control. This allows a fast and flexible use of the extinguishing
robot in subway shafts and tunnels.

The subway in Nanchang consists of two lines, another is currently under construction.
The firefighting robots are positioned at six different stations so they can be deployed as quickly
as possible in the event of an emergency.
Their activity is not limited to the extinguishing of fire only, but also to the ventilation of the shaft.
In this particular case the aim is to reduce smoke as quickly as possible. Since the firefighting
robots are steered by remote control, the firefighters can send them into the immediate danger
zone while remaining a little bit at a distance.

The water mist also plays an important role: it quickly removes the heat from the fire, thus
lowering the temperature and quickly extinguishing the fire. The way for the firefighters can be
cleared and escape routes are created. With traditional extinguishing methods, the large
amount of water often causes enormous damage. The atomization of the water in fine mist,
however, reduces the amount of water drastically, thus limiting the water damage.

For China's economic development, the subway and rail network plays an important strategic
role. Thus, investment in safety and efficiency of the lines is essential, in order to guarantee a
smooth and uninterrupted flow of the same.

ACCORDING TO Megan Wells, firerescue1 Contributor

Drones already have a better ability than the naked eye for early detection when it comes to
wildfires and high-rise flames. But drones can also be a huge asset when it comes to
extinguishing fires, and in increasingly improved ways.

For example, two George Mason Universitystudents are aiming to design a device that uses
soundwaves to extinguish fire. Their idea specifies using the technology with drones: Equip
unmanned aerial vehicles with an extinguisher that works through soundwaves and send them
into fires that are too dangerous for people to enter.

Soundwaves are in abundance, so running out of resources won’t be an issue, and firefighters
remain safer by letting the drones tackle excessively dangerous work.

Perhaps the most obvious way drones can help assist first responders is with search and
rescue. Drones have the ability to cover more ground more effectively.

In 2014, a drone helped locate an 82-year-old man who had been missing for three days.
The drone searched a 200-acre field and located the man in 20 minutes.

Hearing of that rescue success makes it difficult to ignore the fate of Geraldine Largay, the 66-
year-old hiker who got lost in the Appalachians. When Largay’s body was finally found, she was
only two miles from the Appalachian Trail. Using a drone to provide aerial visibility for situations
like this could mean the difference between life and death.

ACCORDING TO Rod Carringer, former chief of the Center Township (IN) Fire Department,
says, “With the demands on limited staffing so many agencies deal with, any asset such as a
drone that can be used to provide real-time situational and operational awareness is equipment
that should be integrated into operations. As the United States Marines are learning as they are
reconfiguring their basic squad size and function to integrate a drone system, maximizing
technology to do our job better and safer is the new normal.”