reducing potential flash overs - by Wynand Engelbrecht Fire fighting flowrate - critical flow rate

Fire fighting flowrate - critical flow rate

The PyroLance system gives you the ability the penetrate any structure within seconds and flow ultra-high pressure water fog straight into the thermal column

How often do you stop and think about this? What size line do you need to pull? The correct answer is…..every time you roll-up to a fire! So often though, this decision happens ‘automatically’ and you pull a line as if you instinctively know what flowrate will be required to suppress the fire. Some regard this as “job knowledge” or “experience”. But how many actually sit down to discuss if the water you flowed on the fire was adequate; too little, too much or just enough?

So many factors and variables come into play into making that conscious or ‘automatic’ decision. It could be size and volume of structure, type of structure, type of contents, building design and construction, visible flame showing or lack off, water supply available standard operating procedures (SOPs) and many more.

Question: How often do you look how much run-off water is leaving the fireground or how deep are you standing in the fire fighting water? Most probably not that often. This begs the question…do you really understand why you are flowing the amount of water you do? The fact of the matter is that, as a water scare country (and it is getting worse) the future of turn-out protocol,

PyroLance system and PyroBLitz is now available in South Africa