If you recall the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last year, during the fire they deployed a firefighting robot that fought the fire from inside the building when it was risky to have a large number of firefighters inside.
Now, the Los Angeles Fire Department has acquired one of these robots. See this local news report "
New Firefighting Robot Rolls Into Action."
All you firefighters, you have a new toy to ask Santa for this coming Christmas season. Although, you'd better have been good boys and girls all year long for Santa to give a robot with a $278,000 price tag.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.