While technology has given firefighters such advances as thermal imaging masks and high-tech heat resistant fabrics, it has yet to come up with a satisfactory solution to an urgent problem: How to track and locate first responders in a complicated structure. That said, could an electromagnetic tracker developed by NASA help them rescue lives without risking theirs?
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