The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame

Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by melkiaur on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:36PM (#19684085)

Apparently, a significant difference between American and French firefighters is that the latter prefer to fight the fire from the inside (e.g.: avoid the heat and steam to accumulate inside).

Apart from the video aspect, wouldn't the Colossus' water stream help them achieve that: creating a path for them to intervene and potentially escape ?

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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by blancheneige on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:01PM (#19684328)

I was just reading in Le Monde yesterday that this approach is used on historical buildings as working inward would trap the fire and essentially create a localized furnace that would damage the artifacts inside.

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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by athenot on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:28PM (#19685146)

Also, the furnace could compromise the stone structure. So the focus was to keep the wall from getting too hot, first from the inside.

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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by rat9988 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:25PM (#19684526)

The way it was explained in Lemonde, it's that french firefihters don't always do that. They did it to preserve the interior, but that might not be their every day strategy.

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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by JshWright on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:44PM (#19684152)

Where have you seen that difference apparent? That's not the case, in my experience.

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