by 911Control | Jun 27, 2019 | Class A Foam, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, News
Utilizing EPA 537 Modified Test Method, F-500 Encapsulator Agent 1% and 3% firefighting solutions were tested at GEL Laboratories LLC, a US EPA Approved Laboratory, to prove that F-500 EA does not contain any of the 25 targeted fluorinated ingredients including...
by 911Control | Apr 18, 2019 | News
NFPA 18A F-500 Encapsulator TechnologyOver the decades uses of Foams containing fluorinated ingredient including PFOS and PFOA have contaminated ground water, municipal drinking water supplies and wildlife such as deer and fish. Everyday there is a new headline about...
by 911Control | Sep 20, 2018 | F-500 Encapsultor Agent, News
As we know, cancer is one of the greatest occupational hazards facing the fire service to date. The materials found in common items nowadays are proving to be dangerous and can be the cause of some of the harmful carcinogens that cause the awful disease. Please read...
by 911Control | Sep 11, 2018 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, Education, Ethanol, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Landfill, Spill Control, Structure, Transformer, Videos
Highlights of F-500 Encapsulator Agent F-500 Encapsulator Agent is an evolution for fire extinguishing agents, and currently the most versatile agent on the market. It is the only agent that has been tested and approved for almost all kinds of fire. With the number of...
by 911Control | Aug 27, 2018 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
Car Fires – Beware of Magnesium Components in Today’s Cars Many of the fires firefighters respond to are car fires and today’s car fires must be approached with great caution. To make cars lighter for better fuel mileage, many components are made of Class D...
by 911Control | Jun 14, 2018 | Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
The Importance of Cooling to Extinguish a Fire You may think water does a great job of cooling a fire, but water does not cool efficiently and creates a lot of dangerous steam. Foams are designed to form a blanket to separate the fuel from the oxygen, but foam traps...
by 911Control | May 25, 2018 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control
F-500 EA Rapidly Cools Class D Fires – Safely! Never apply water or foam to Class D fires, but if you add just 3% F-500 Encapsulator Agent to the water, you change the way the droplets react with heat. A plain water drop inefficiently removes heat by steam conversion....
by 911Control | Apr 20, 2018 | Challenging, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control
There’s only one firefighting agent that can be used to extinguish Class A, Class B polar, Class B nonpolar, Class D fires and is recommended for transformer fires and lithium-ion battery fires. And no other agent can encapsulate spilled fuels and render them...
by 911Control | Mar 21, 2018 | Challenging, Class D, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
Never apply water to a Class D fire, unless you add 3% F-500 Encapsulator Agent. The F-500 EA prevents the water from separating into explosive hydrogen and oxygen. The F-500 EA molecules form a protective skin around the water droplets and rapidly absorb the heat. ...
by 911Control | Mar 19, 2018 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, Ethanol, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
This video shows F-500 Encapsulator Agent at only ½% extinguishing this car fire in about 5 seconds. Notice how fast the temperature drops from 2000ºF to 78 ºF in seconds. According to NFPA, 15% of the calls firefighters make are car fires, and today’s car fires are...
by 911Control | Mar 15, 2018 | Challenging, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Landfill, News
On a Tuesday morning, the Watertown Fire Department responded to a tire fire in Dodge County, Wisconsin. It turned out to be the largest coordinated fire in the state of Wisconsin with 106 fire departments responding with 920 firefighters. One million tires were...
by 911Control | Feb 14, 2018 | Challenging, Class D, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
NFPA 11, Annex A.1.1 – “Foam is not suitable for three-dimensional flowing liquid fuel fires or for gas fires.” This excellent video shows a demonstration at a refinery in Italy of a typical three-dimensional flowing liquid fuel fire. Foam could not...
