[melkiaur]

Apparently, a significant difference between American and French firefighters is that the latter prefer to fight the fire from the inside (e.g.: avoid the heat and steam to accumulate inside).

Apart from the video aspect, wouldn't the Colossus' water stream help them achieve that: creating a path for them to intervene and potentially escape ?

[blancheneige]

I was just reading in Le Monde yesterday that this approach is used on historical buildings as working inward would trap the fire and essentially create a localized furnace that would damage the artifacts inside.

[athenot]

Also, the furnace could compromise the stone structure. So the focus was to keep the wall from getting too hot, first from the inside.

[rat9988]

The way it was explained in Lemonde, it's that french firefihters don't always do that. They did it to preserve the interior, but that might not be their every day strategy.

[JshWright]

Where have you seen that difference apparent? That's not the case, in my experience.