The smoke in a fire can be so thick that it can be hard to see who or what might be left in a room, but the Staunton Fire Department has special technology to help them do just that.
"In a smoky environment, you can't see your hand in front of your face, so it helps us see through the smoke," Deputy Chief, Community Risk Reduction, Perry Weller, said.
While firefighters will still do a thorough search by hand, thermal imaging cameras help firefighters search a room more efficiently by picking up heat signatures from people or objects.
"We can do a quick scan and if we see something that doesn't look quite right, we can really hone in on those areas and go to there first versus just doing a blind sweep of the entire room," Weller said.