Lifeboat Foundation

Story highlights

• Smoke can hide unconscious victims from firefighters
• Firefighters have used thermal cameras to locate victims
• New device projects thermal image into firefighters’ masks

What’s the most dangerous thing in a fire?

If you think it’s the flames or the heat, that’s understandable: those are dangerous, too. But both from a victim’s and a firefighter’s perspective, the deadliest enemy is smoke.