The Taradale Volunteer Fire Brigade is grateful to the Rotary Club of Taradale and the Rotary Foundation for its new thermal-imaging camera.
The camera, worth $8000, was presented to senior station officer Paul Hughes on Thursday by club president Claire Connor.
Hughes said the thermal-imaging camera would bring many benefits to the brigade.
Being able to see people through smoke would make it much easier and faster to save someone stuck in a smoked-out building, he said.
"With these cameras we can actually look in through the walls as such, and see if there's anything smouldering inside the walls or the roof," said Hughes.