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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.
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
There’s a good chance a battery farm has gone up somewhere in your first-due in the last couple of years, or is about to. The fenced rows of containers behind a substation, the cluster of cabinets next to a solar field — that’s a Battery Energy Storage System, and it’s showing up in rural and… Read more: The Battery Farm in Your First-Due: Protecting Grid-Scale Energy Storage
