by 911Control | Jan 24, 2017 | Automobile, Challenging, Education, Ethanol, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
You are the guardians of the highways in your area. And those car fires are hotter, and more dangerous than ever with synthetics, plastics, tires, magnesium components, lithium-ion batteries and polar or nonpolar Class B fuels. One agent is recommended for all of...
by 911Control | Jan 17, 2017 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control
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 magnesium. Applying water or foam will cause a dangerous explosion...
by 911Control | Jan 10, 2017 | Challenging, Class A Foam, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, News, Videos
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 energized transformer fires and lithium-ion battery fires. And no other agent can encapsulate fuel spills and render them...
by 911Control | Jan 3, 2017 | Challenging, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, News
Major Fire: F-500 Encapsulator Agent vs. One Million Tires 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...
by 911Control | Dec 27, 2016 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, Education, Ethanol, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
Quickly and Safely Extinguishing Car Fires 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...
by 911Control | Dec 19, 2016 | Challenging, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
Video – The Manston Fire Wall When training, there’s something about a tough fire, like this three dimensional, flowing fuel fire. Water just makes it mad; foam isn’t going to work. You need F-500 Encapsulator Agent. NFPA 11 Annex A.1.1 states, “Foam is...
