Using Artificial Intelligence in Airport Firefighting

In a world where airplanes move every minute… where airports overflow with thousands of passengers… and where fuel systems, service tunnels, and ground operations grow increasingly complex… danger no longer waits.

Seconds have become the thin line between a tragedy etched into history… and a rescue recorded as an exceptional achievement.

A new player has emerged: Artificial Intelligence.

Not as a replacement for the fire commander… nor as a competitor to his experience… but as a force multiplier that grants the firefighting team unprecedented capabilities in vision, analysis, and decision-making before flames expand or smoke spreads.

Today, advanced airports rely on AI systems that analyze fire data moment by moment…

Thermal cameras that detect hidden hotspots…

Algorithms that map the predicted fire path with millimeter precision…

And predictive models that tell you what will happen 20 seconds from now—almost as if they can see the future.

Imagine a fire commander receiving an instant report on smoke color, material collapse time, and fire spread routes inside the aircraft…

Imagine a fire truck moving before traditional alerts even arrive…

And an operations room viewing a full Digital Twin of the incident, interacting with it as if standing right on the scene…

And drones sending live footage from above the wings, beneath the fuselage, and inside areas humans can’t reach.

This is not science fiction…

This is the new era of airport fire management.

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Lydbog: 19. november 2025