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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 — with zero PFAS, less water, and proven NFPA 18A compliance.
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
For thirteen weeks we’ve talked about the fireground — the engine, the tender, the crew on the line. Section 5 turns to a different problem: the hazards that live inside a building’s own equipment, where the fire starts in the machinery you’re trying to protect and no one is standing there with a hose. Data… Read more: When the Backup Battery Becomes the Fire: Protecting Data Centers
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 is bigger and moving.… Read more: When Water Makes It Worse: Class B Fires and the 3% Mix
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 works —… Read more: Faster Knockdown, Less Water: How Encapsulation Changes the Fireground
