by 911Control | Jun 16, 2016 | Class A Foam, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, News
But you mostly use water, which saves a lot of money, right? Not so fast. Even using F-500 EA at ½ % on Class A fires can save money. Why? Knockdown is incredibly fast with F-500 EA, so there is less property damage, less water used, fewer calls for additional...
by 911Control | May 20, 2016 | Challenging, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Structure
This interesting article appeared in BrandSchutz Firefighting magazine covering a huge warehouse fire in Böblingen, Germany. After extensive testing, the entire region of Böblingen had recently converted from foam to F-500 Encapsulator Agent. The limited supply of...
by 911Control | May 11, 2016 | Class A Foam, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Spill Control
F-500 Encapsulator Agent extinguishes a fire by encapsulating the fuel, rapidly cooling and interrupting the free radical chain reaction, but the ability to encapsulate fuels makes F-500 EA a very versatile tool.You’re at a highway accident scene with a leaking fuel...
by 911Control | Mar 30, 2016 | Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
You may think water does a great job of cooling a fire, but water does not cool efficiently and creates a lot of dangerous steam. Foams are designed to form a blanket to separate the fuel from the oxygen, but foam traps in the heat, often resulting in reignition....
by 911Control | Mar 11, 2016 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, News
Never apply water or foam to Class D fires, but if you add just 3% F-500 Encapsulator Agent to the water, you change the way the droplets react with heat. A plain water drop inefficiently removes heat by steam conversion. F-500 EA droplets efficiently absorb the heat...
by 911Control | Mar 2, 2016 | Challenging, Class D, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, News
We’ve told you how effective F-500 Encapsulator Agent is on Class A, Class B (polar and nonpolar), Class D and three-dimensional fires. So, doesn’t it make a lot of sense to use a 2.5 gallon F-500 EA Fire Extinguisher for smaller fires? This extinguisher has...
