Don't Leave the House Without it.

The article focuses on the use of handheld thermal imagers by firefighters. It says that the tools allow firefighters to make learned decisions prior to entering a scene with its ability to display varying temperature areas within fires. It mentions the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) 2011 conference held in Indianapolis, Indiana which focused on the limitations of the technology. It adds that the exiting equipment use vanadium oxide (VOx), based on the microbolometer technology.