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London’s burning, fetch the camera
In the autumn of 2015, central London was disrupted for two days by a fire raging underneath a main road in Holborn.
Firefighters eventually extinguished the blaze, but not before nearly two days of disturbance to office workers and theatre-goers.
Emergency services released footage filmed from overhead thermal imaging cameras, revealing bright white spots on the ground where the intense heat of the blaze glowed beneath manhole covers.
Without the help of thermographic imaging, fire services would not have been able to see the full extent of the fire and how dangerously close it was to the surface.
A question to all risk managers…
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For advice on how to use thermographic imaging effectively, click here.
Published date: 9th December 2016
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