by 911Control | Jun 22, 2017 | Automobile, Challenging, Class A Foam, Class D, 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 | Jun 19, 2017 | Automobile, Challenging, Education, Ethanol, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Landfill, Structure, Transformer, Videos
You can easily reduce cancer-causing toxins in smoke by applying 1-3% F-500 Encapsulator Agent in the water stream. This reduces the carcinogens everyone on the fire scene is exposed to. Independent tests show toxins are reduced 98.6% and smoke is reduced 97%. Plus,...
by 911Control | Jun 12, 2017 | 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 | May 25, 2017 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
Class D fires are becoming more and more common. Many magnesium components are used in today’s cars and cause a dangerous flare-up or explosion as plain water or foam is applied. Lithium batteries, being transported on our highways are a Class D hazard and even a fire...
by 911Control | May 16, 2017 | Class A Foam, Fire Control, News
The all new Pinnacle Class B C6 foams are designed to eliminate potentially harmful PFOS and subsequent PFOA in accordance with the US EPA PFOS Stewardship Program. These foams conform to various international standards, including UL 162. Pinnacle Class A foams create...
by 911Control | Apr 13, 2017 | Challenging, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
We’ve shown you how effective F-500 Encapsulator Agent is against Class A, Class B polar, Class B nonpolar, three-dimensional fires, lithium-ion battery fires, energized transformer fires and even Class D. But can F-500 EA extinguish gas fires? You bet! How about...
by 911Control | Mar 28, 2017 | Challenging, Class D, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control
Class D fires are becoming more and more common. Many magnesium components are used in today’s cars including steering columns, door frames, dashboards and seat frames, and cause a dangerous flare-up or explosion as plain water or foam is applied. Even a fire in a...
by 911Control | Mar 14, 2017 | News
NFPA 11, Annex A.1.1 – “Foam is not suitable for three-dimensional flowing liquid fuel fires or for gas fires.” How many fires are actually three-dimensional fires? Foam can’t form a blanket to smother these fires. F-500 Encapsulator Agent rapidly...
by 911Control | Mar 10, 2017 | News
“I just don’t understand why every firefighter isn’t using F-500 EA.” We hear that time and again. We’ve told you how F-500 Encapsulator Agent virtually eliminates carcinogens in the smoke and results in a warm vapor, instead of scalding steam. We’ve told you this...
by 911Control | Mar 8, 2017 | Challenging, Class A Foam, Education, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Transformer
Below, you can click on a link to a series of excellent articles in the 2nd/2010 issue of the FDNY magazine WNYF. These articles describe a transformer fire in Queens, NY that led up to the considerable commitment by ConEdison to begin testing fire suppression agents...
by 911Control | Feb 8, 2017 | Automobile, Challenging, Class D, Education, Ethanol, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Videos
According to NFPA, 17% of the fires firefighters respond to are car fires. Are you properly prepared? Today’s car fires are different from car fires of 20 years ago and you should be using the most current tools to fight them. ·Magnesium Components – Steering columns,...
by 911Control | Jan 31, 2017 | Challenging, Class A Foam, Class D, F-500 Encapsultor Agent, Fire Control, Landfill
These fires burn beneath the surface, so you need an agent designed to penetrate. Enough oxygen is available beneath the surface to sustain combustion, so laying foam on the surface won’t smother these fires. F-500 Encapsulator Agent will penetrate deep and...
