While the start of the forest fire season is causing tension in many places in the northern hemisphere, we want to show you an example of a forest fire in Germany that demonstrates how important the use of an early smoke detection system is.
A forest fire that occurred in Lower Saxony, Germany, was detected within minutes by one of our systems installed there, enabling the fire to be brought under control before a surveillance aircraft from the local fire department passed by. This can be seen from the white clouds on the first image in the video below, which indicate the high water content in the smoke.
According to the Lower Saxony foresters, the trees at the site of the fire were not damaged thanks to the early smoke detection by IQ FireWatch (second image in the video below).