by Danny Stephens | Aug 25, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
Every firefighter learns it early: you don’t put a straight stream on a burning liquid. Hit a pan of flaming grease or a fuel spill with plain water and you don’t put it out — you spread it. The water sinks, the burning fuel rides on top, and now the fire...
by Danny Stephens | Aug 17, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
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...
by Danny Stephens | Aug 10, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
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...
by Danny Stephens | Aug 4, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
Last week’s data showed F-500 EA stopping lithium-ion fires cold — deeper cooling, halted propagation, dramatically lower toxic gas. This week we look at where those fires increasingly happen: inside the parking structures beneath our offices, apartments,...
by Danny Stephens | Jul 25, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
Last week we walked through thermal runaway — the self-feeding chain reaction that makes a lithium-ion fire so hard to stop. Knowing why these fires behave the way they do is one thing. Knowing what actually shuts them down is another. This week we set the talk aside...
by Danny Stephens | Jul 21, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
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...
by Danny Stephens | Jul 14, 2026 | News, Fire Suppression Education
The fire service has a contamination problem that doesn’t go away when the fire goes out — and in many cases, doesn’t go away for decades. PFAS — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are a family of synthetic chemicals that have been a component of AFFF...
by Danny Stephens | Jul 7, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
Last week we looked at the data behind firefighter cancer risk — the statistics that put the threat in hard numbers and trace it directly to what happens on the fireground. This week we look at what departments are doing about it, and how F-500 EA fits into a...
by Danny Stephens | Jun 30, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
Most line-of-duty deaths used to mean exactly what the term implies — a firefighter lost in the act of fighting fire. That’s no longer the leading cause of death in the profession. It’s cancer. In 2023, 72% of line-of-duty deaths among International...
by Danny Stephens | Jun 23, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
Ask any firefighter what agent they reach for on a Class B fire and most will say foam. It’s been the answer for decades. And for flat, pooled liquid fires on a hard surface, foam does what it’s supposed to do — blanket the fuel, cut off oxygen, suppress...
by Danny Stephens | Jun 16, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
If you went through any fire service training, you learned about the fire triangle — heat, fuel, and oxygen. Remove any one of those three elements and the fire goes out. That model served the fire service well for decades. Then it got upgraded. The fire tetrahedron...
by Danny Stephens | Jun 10, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education
Last week we talked about how today’s fires have become a fundamentally different threat than what traditional firefighting doctrine was designed to address. This week we introduce the agent that was built specifically for that new reality. F-500 EA Encapsulator...
