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  2. Firefighting foam - Wikipedia

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    Firefighting foam is a foam used for fire suppression. Its role is to cool the fire and to coat the fuel, preventing its contact with oxygen, thus achieving suppression of the combustion. Firefighting foam was invented by the Moldovan engineer and chemist Aleksandr Loran in 1902. [1] The surfactants used must produce foam in concentrations of ...

  3. Fire extinguisher - Wikipedia

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    A fire extinguisher is a handheld active fire protection device ... USCG-approved 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-gallon AFFF foam fire extinguisher. ... Halon gases are banned from new ...

  4. Bromochlorodifluoromethane - Wikipedia

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    Bromochlorodifluoromethane (BCF), also referred to by the code numbers Halon 1211 and Freon 12B1, is a haloalkane with the chemical formula C F 2 Cl Br.It is used for fire suppression, especially for expensive equipment or items that could be damaged by the residue from other types of extinguishers. [1]

  5. The Pyrene Company Limited - Wikipedia

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    In 1971 Chubb Fire Security Ltd was formed. In that same year a Bristol Britannia aircraft, flown by test pilot Donald Chubb, landed on a carpet of Pyrene foam at Manston. In 1976 Fireward Ltd, manufacturers since 1964 of plastic-bodied portable dry-powder fire extinguishers, also merged with Pyrene Panorama, to form the new company, Chubb ...

  6. Schools opening near fire zones are safe, district officials ...

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    The district had offered space to Odyssey South — the school destroyed in the fire — on the same campus that houses Odyssey. When officials from the two schools held a town hall Jan. 23, it ...

  7. Fire retardant - Wikipedia

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    Class A foam is used as a fire retardant in 2.5 gallon [APW] and [CAFS] extinguishers to contain incipient brush fires and grass fires by creating a fire break. Other chemical retardants are capable of rendering class A material and Class B fuels non-flammable and extinguishing class A, class B, and some class D fires.

  8. Exploding fire extinguisher kills a student and injures 5 ...

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    A fire extinguisher exploded and killed a student during a fire drill held outdoors in sweltering heat at a high school in Thailand’s capital Friday, police said. Five other students were injured.

  9. Teachers at North Carolina School banned from saying please

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