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There is widespread agreement in the
fire service that Class A foam is at least twice as effective as plain
water in putting out fire, so Advantage Apparatus installs FoamPro 2002
"push button" Class A foam systems on all Advantage Foam Dragons.
The foamy water from a FoamPro sticks to fuels instead of washing away,
and the foam solution breaks down water molecules into smaller sized
droplets that penetrate burning fuels faster.
Using foam means your firefighters are exposed to
fire combat for less than half the time and exposed to the dangers and
exertions of overhaul for less than half the time.
Your "customer's" property also is exposed
to flames for a shorter time and water damage is significantly reduced
because there is 50 less water used.
Perhaps the greatest savings foam offers is in apparatus
purchase. If every gallon of water is more than doubled in suppressant
capacity when it goes through the foam system on a Foam Dragon, how
many tankers would you have to buy to double+ your gpm's at a fire without
foam? (All the shuttle people agree that 150 gpm per tanker is what
a shuttle delivers.)
FoamPro's modern foam systems are very, very easy
to run. Firefighters simply get off the truck, start the pump, push
the "Foam" button and fire away. It doesn't matter if you
are flowing 50 gpm or 1250 gpm, the FoamPro system injects exactly the
right amount of foam solution into the water.
To make foam even more effective, all Advantage Foam
Dragons can be equipped with the Vindicator series of aspirating nozzles
produced by First Strike Technologies (www.1ststriketech.com).
The medium-sized Vindicator "Heavy Attack" nozzle allows a
SINGLE firefighter to flow 250 gpm at 50 psi nozzle pressure ("NP")
through a 1.75" line. Adding foam solution to that 250 gpm takes
advantage of the aspirating capability of the nozzle to make the finest
quality aspirated foam available, equal to at least 500 gpm of plain
water. Two firefighters using two 1.75" crosslays can flow the
equivalent of 1000 gpm easily.
Very few room and contents fires can endure even a 250 gpm flow for
more than a fraction of a minute before the flames go dark.
BOTTOM LINE: Foam uses less water, reduces firefighter exertion by at
least half, puts out the fire faster, reduces water damage for your
customers and saves you the cost of several additional basic tankers.
Vindicator nozzles let you make better foam and flow much larger gpm's
at lower pressures with fewer firefighters, so "lost cause"
fires suddenly turn into impressive saves.
Click
Here to calculate the gpm's an Advantage Foam Dragon can flow
when supported by your tanker shuttle.
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