Firefighting Solutions

Max-Viz, Inc. has solutions for a wide range of firefighting airframes including both fixed and rotary wing platforms.

EVS dramatically increases situational awareness by using infrared technology to image through smoke as if it didn’t exist. The ability to detect terrain through the localized and regional obscurants dramatically increases pilot confidence, reduces cockpit stress levels, helps with accurate firefighting techniques and makes fire support and suppression missions safer.

Because of a fixed mount design on Max-Viz EVS, the sensor effectively works like a bomb sight, imaging through smoke to detect the structure of the fire and allowing for pin-point precision drops. The ability to image through smoke means suppression activities can occur while the fire is most dormant in late evening / early morning period where the fire suppressant can be laid down with far greater effectiveness. Additionally, because operations during dormant periods means flying when the fire is laid down, the dynamics of operations around puffers and severe updrafts are mitigated.

The ability to image through the smoke to detect the dynamics of a fire means the ability to navigate around previously unseen hazards, avoid terrain, and increase the safety margins in this most hazardous market segment.

Minimizing time spent on a fire while maximizing the effectiveness of suppressant means gaining previously unrecognizable efficiencies, simultaneously saving property and resource hours / dollars.

Take a look at our fire suppression video and give us a call at 888-629-7888 or contact us via email. The installation is easy, the learning curve is quick and the solution and answer are before you.