The day after the major fire in Essen city center with three injured and 35 destroyed apartments, a four-legged police robot is to explore the ruins.
"He is used," said a spokesman for the police in Essen on Tuesday of the German Press Agency.
The plan is to start in the late morning.
The 35-kilo walking robot was presented just a few weeks ago at a meeting with NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) in Duisburg.
At that time it was explained that he could use cameras and sensors to explore disaster sites, for example.
Fire extinguished since 7 a.m
According to an initial assessment by the fire brigade, the ruins of the residential complex are in danger of collapsing.
During the night of Tuesday, firefighters used a thermal imaging camera to check several times whether something was glowing, as a fire department spokesman said on Tuesday morning.
Again and again small embers appeared, which were extinguished.
At around 7:00 a.m., the emergency services reported "fire out," the spokesman said.
This will hand over the operation site to the criminal police.
The cause of the devastating band in Essen is still unknown.
128 people had lost their homes and in many cases their entire property as a result of the fire that broke out Monday morning.
They had to move to acquaintances or hotels.
The fire brigade worked all day on Monday to finally extinguish the fire.
After the end of the nightly extinguishing work, the fire brigade wants to dismantle the hoses laid at the scene of the fire in the course of the morning.