One of the latest things in firefighting tools is a camera.  Many fire departments allow their crews to wear helmet cameras- small “lipstick”  cams to record their efforts.   Far from being a way to re-live the thrill, these cameras are often invaluable aids in reconstructing fire-rescue efforts for training.   Watch the companies from Dover, New Jersey fight this house fire.  A woman in her 80′s perished.  Her two sons got out okay.  And one firefighter is slightly injured in a fall as he bails out from the burning upper floor, where flames have chased him to the window.

Here in the dead of winter…. this video should be a reminder of what fire-ems-rescue-and law enforcement folks do for us every day.