Cars buried in foam outside United hangar at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport. (Copyright 2024 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) HOUSTON – A fire ...

Turkish modular construction manufacturer Karmod has developed a new line of storage tanks specifically designed for use in foam fire suppression systems, the company announced Friday. Engineered to ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about the High Expansion Foam System. This fire extinguishing ...

Since 1877, when foam was first introduced as a fire suppression agent, it has been part of the firefighters’ arsenal. Over 100 years later, in the 1980s, foam was popularized as an effective wildland ...

Successful retrofit to first newbuilding sees Aberdeen-based owner specify further Low Expansion Foam system for second China-built jack-up. Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS) has received a repeat ...

One of the most promising technological advances to occur within the fire service over the last 25 years was the technology associated with Class A foam and compressed air foam systems (CAFS). This ...

An Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting team dispenses foam on a fuselage during training. Credit: Perimeter Solutions Now that the FAA no longer requires airports to maintain foam fire-suppression ...

According to “youmustvotenato”, the user who posted it to Reddit, the following picture was taken after the fire suppression system base went off because of a spark from a welder set. Clearly visible ...

In case you were wondering: Mixing alcohol with muscular fire suppression foam systems is not a good idea. A Marine in Okinawa, Japan, who was allegedly drunk, learned that lesson recently, according ...

The Air Force has disconnected foam firefighting systems at more than 1,000 facilities over concerns about cancer-causing chemicals, according to the service’s Installation and Mission Support Center.

HOUSTON — Foam covered an area of Bush Airport Thursday after a fire suppression system inadvertently went off. This happened at about 5:30 a.m. By 5 p.m., most of the foam had been cleaned from the ...

In the January 2015 issue of FireRescue, I discussed the different types of fire extinguishers and how they work. Let’s take some time in this column to better understand the potential applications of ...