Boulder Junction Community Foundation Awards Grant to Boulder Junction Fire Department

The Boulder Junction Community Foundation has awarded the Boulder Junction Volunteer Fire Department a grant in the amount of $4500. The grant will purchase a Thermal Imaging Camera.

Thermal imaging cameras, colloquially known as TICs, are a type of thermographic camera used in firefighting and rescue applications, allowing firefighters to “see” through darkness and smoke on the fireground. By rendering infrared radiation as visible light, TICs allow firefighters to see areas of heat through smoke, darkness or heat-permeable barriers – spotting fires within walls, detecting overheated electrical wiring, locating hot-spots in fire debris, locating materials involved in spontaneous low-level combustions, etc.

Thermal imaging cameras, which can detect the heat signature of visually-obscured victims, are helpful in aiding search-and-rescue operations in hostile environments, including those involving structure fires, helping expedite life-saving rescue operations. TICs are also useful in some outdoor rescue applications as well.

Pictured standing, from left, are treasurer Katherine Maurer, Jesse Moore, EMS Director Daniell Wahlgren, Capt. Paul Newberg, Krysta Maurer, Assistant Fire Chief Jason Maurer, Secretary Trish Menzia, Olivia Menzia, Lynn Long, Linda Thayer, Linda Chantry, Marshall Reckard and Lt. Josh Thompson. Sitting on Brush One, from left, are Linda Novak, Fire Chief Eric Johnson, and Sarah Moore.