Friday, July 18, 2008
Foam follows function
Douglas Eaton, Marketing and Sales Director, NBC Team Ltd., Fort Erie, Ont.
A Canadian military effort to effectively tackle decontamination of CBRN incidents shows that the white stuff is for more than fighting fires....
ARFFs evolve as air travel changes
Chris Cavette, Senior Editor
Expanding airports, increased air travel, larger aircraft and new FAA requirements mean fire departments must re-evaluate their aircraft rescue and firefighting needs....
Bubbles beat water
Chris Cavette, Senior Editor
The members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department knew they had a firefighting winner in compressed-air foam, but they only had a string of anecdotes to prove it. In a quest for hard numbers, the LACFD conducted a series of tests and released the results to FIRE CHIEF....
Class A decisions
By Kevin Roche, Assistant to the Chief Phoenix Fire Department
Like many departments, when we first heard about Class A foam back in the late 1980s, we were firmly under the misconception that it was, if anything,...
Foam follow function: The Tremonia and Wattenscheid trials
Holger de Vries
This is the third article in a series featured by Fire Chief, which started with a description of the problems encountered when fire and extinguishment...
The finer points of foam
Chris Cavette
Back in the early 1990s, a lot of fire departments didn't specify foam systems, because they were concerned about the reliability of the proportioning...
People-safe foam neutralizes bio-chem agents
Douglas Page
Emergency personnel responding to biological-chemical terrorist attacks face a dilemma: If they enter the scene without knowing the risks, they might...
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