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ControlHazards.com provides fire departments and industrial facilities with the education, training, and supply they need to fight today’s fires with today’s technology. F-500 EA is the only agent that handles every class of fire — including lithium-ion batteries — fluorine-free, with less water and proven NFPA 18A compliance.
A sawmill makes its own fuel. Every cut throws off sawdust and fines, and every shift the stuff settles on beams, belts, and motors and collects under the machinery where nobody can see it. Add hot equipment and hydraulic oil in a cramped building and you get what Hazard Control Technologies calls a perfect storm.… Read more: A Perfect Storm on the Mill Floor: Lumber & Sawmill Fire Protection
The best fire agent on your truck is the one that’s ready the moment the tones drop — and still ready the next time, with no drill of draining and flushing the tank in between. For a long time the agents departments lived with made that a trade: keep it loaded and accept what it… Read more: Easy on Your Rig, Hard on the Fire
There is no worse place to have a fire than at sea. On land, a burning building has a fire department rolling toward it and a street full of hydrants. A ship in open water has neither. The crew fights with what is aboard, they cannot walk away from the problem, and if the fire… Read more: The Sea Doesn’t Send Help: Marine & Port Fire Protection
The machines that hold the power grid together are getting old, and they are starting to burn. Transformer installations in the United States peaked in the mid-1970s, the average unit lasts about forty years, and much of that fleet is reaching the end of the run all at once. Industry sources expect transformer failures to… Read more: The Grid Is Aging, and It’s Starting to Burn: Protecting Transformers & Power Infrastructure
An electric vehicle doesn’t wait until it’s moving to become a fire problem. Most of the time it’s sitting still — parked on level three, or plugged into a charger — when a cell lets go. That’s the part that makes a parking structure such a hard place to defend: the fire starts in an… Read more: The Garage Fails Before the Fire’s Out: Protecting EV Parking & Charging
