Firefighting Robot Snake Flies on Jets of Water
The idea is nice and all, but as a volunteer firefighter of 12 years I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s very practicable because<p>1. you have to transport all this stuff. Fire trucks have a notorious tendency to be overloaded and all these stable hoses and jets additionally take a lot of space on the truck (which is also rare)<p>2. Assembly (and maybe operation) seems to be kind of complicated. When being under adrenaline and pressure to quickly save people and buildings&#x2F;goods, that is very counter-productive<p>3. Firefighting techniques try to evolve into using water as effective as possible, this does not seem the case here. Apart from being an environmental and infrastructural issue (e.g. pressure surges bursting water pipes and&#x2F;or connectors and simply using up the available water supplies), water damage on building is often higher and more problematic than the damage done by the actual fire and smoke, so it is key to just use only as much water as neccessary to extinguish a fire, especially inside of buildings. I don&#x27;t think flying your equipment on water jets towards the fire will help with that :-)