by Danny Stephens | Sep 11, 2018 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, Education, Ethanol, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Landfill, Spill Control, Structure, Transformer, Videos
Highlights of F-500 Encapsulator Agent F-500 Encapsulator Agent is an evolution for fire extinguishing agents, and currently the most versatile agent on the market. It is the only agent that has been tested and approved for almost all kinds of fire. With the number of...
by Danny Stephens | Aug 27, 2018 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
Car Fires – Beware of Magnesium Components in Today’s Cars 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...
by Danny Stephens | Jun 14, 2018 | Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
The Importance of Cooling to Extinguish a Fire 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...
by Danny Stephens | Mar 21, 2018 | Challenging, Class D, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
Never apply water to a Class D fire, unless you add 3% F-500 Encapsulator Agent. The F-500 EA prevents the water from separating into explosive hydrogen and oxygen. The F-500 EA molecules form a protective skin around the water droplets and rapidly absorb the heat. ...
by Danny Stephens | Mar 19, 2018 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, Ethanol, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
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 are car fires, and today’s car fires are...
by Danny Stephens | Feb 14, 2018 | Challenging, Class D, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
NFPA 11, Annex A.1.1 – “Foam is not suitable for three-dimensional flowing liquid fuel fires or for gas fires.” This excellent video shows a demonstration at a refinery in Italy of a typical three-dimensional flowing liquid fuel fire. Foam could not...
