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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 — with zero PFAS, less water, and proven NFPA 18A compliance.
Every structure fire comes down to a race between the water you can put on it and the heat the fire is throwing back. In a district where the nearest hydrant is a memory and the water on scene is whatever rode in on the tender, that race is the whole ballgame. Water works —… Read more: Faster Knockdown, Less Water: How Encapsulation Changes the Fireground
For fifty years the fire service reached for AFFF because it worked. Aqueous film-forming foam knocked down flammable-liquid fires fast, and for most of that time nobody asked what it left behind. Now we know — and the ground is shifting under the entire category. The federal signal The clearest sign comes from the federal… Read more: The End of Firefighting Foam
Why EV fires in parking garages threaten the building itself — and how F-500 EA and the Applus+ certified Diamond Doser protect structures with far less water.
What independent testing shows about F-500 EA on lithium-ion fires: deeper cooling, halted propagation, and dramatically lower toxic HF gas. The data, in one place.
The electric age has brought lithium-ion batteries into virtually every environment fire departments respond to — homes, businesses, vehicles, parking structures, marine vessels, aircraft, and industrial facilities. With that proliferation comes a fire hazard unlike anything the fire service was trained to handle. Lithium-ion battery fires don’t behave like ordinary fires. They accelerate. They re-ignite.… Read more: Thermal Runaway: Understanding the Chain Reaction That Makes Li-Ion Fires So Deadly
