F-500 Encapsulator Technology Videos
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The F-500 Promotional Video is designed to showcase the firefighting effectiveness of F-500 Encapsulator Technology on a variety of Class A, B, and D fuels.
Additional Videos:
These additional videos show F-500 in many special use applications against Class A and B fires. Click on the video thumbnail or the Watch This Video link to view the video in your browser.
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Canadian CTV News Footage This clip shows Canadian CTV national news coverage of the performance effectiveness of F-500 on a range of Class A and Class B fires. F-500 is praised across Canada for its incredible performance, water savings, and increased life safety to Canadian Fire Fighters. |
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Warrick Alcoa Plant This industrial training scenario consists of a metal catwalk over the top of a pit containing 200 gallons of burning diesel. On the catwalk is a flange spewing liquid propane (LP) gas under pressure, making this a very difficult fire. |
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Broward County Fire Training Grounds - Fuel Fire This scenario is 30 gallons of diesel fuel extinguished with a 1% F-500 solution. This clip demonstrates the sweeping motion needed for extinguishing fuel fires. Note the ease with which F 500 extinguishes the 30 gallons of fuel. |
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Broward County Fire Training Grounds - Tire Fire In this clip 22 burning tires at 1600º F are extinguished and cooled to 150º F in less than six seconds. Note that due to the removal of heat the firefighter does not have to move any tires for overhaul. |
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FAA Testing Grounds Ocala, Florida This clip shows a Three-Dimensional Cascade Flowing Fuel Fire. In this scenario fuel is continually fed to the top of a metal tower and it flows down cascading falls in the front of the tower into a fuel-in-depth pit. |
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Ontario Power Generation - Propane In this clip F-500 is applied at a 1% solution on a propane pipe rupture fire utilizing a 95-gpm nozzle. Due to F-500's ability to form and maintain micelles around the hydrocarbon fuel molecules, the propane fuel is encapsulated rendering it nonflammable. The fire is extinguished within one second. |
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Memphis Fire Grounds - Fuel Pit This video clip shows 150 gallons of diesel fuel in a 15-foot diameter steel pit. The fire is quickly extinguished using a 3% F-500 solution through a 95-gpm nozzle set at a 30º fog pattern. Note: Watch as the firefighter places his hand on the outside of the steel pit indicating it is cool. |
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Electrical Transformer Fire In this video clip F-500 is being used to extinguish an electrical transformer fire. F-500 is fed at 3% into a sprinkler deluge system utilizing ten 5 Gallon per minute heads. The fire is quickly knocked down including the running surface fire, by the indirect spray from the sprinkler heads. |