NEW USES FOR FOAM IN INDUSTRY

摘要

For years, my "foam guy" (a persistent salesman and longtime acquaintance) has been saying, "Chief, if you got a stubborn Class.A fire, put a line from your (Class B) foam truck into the fire department sprinkler connection. It will help you achieve knockdown, especially below grade or in basements." Of course, I was as skeptical as you are now. This guy is trying to sell more foam, right? We milled this concept around at officer meetings, training sessions, and other gatherings. Everyone was more or less indifferent to the concept. How can you put foam through regular sprinkler heads? Don't we need aspirating heads for foam? We have them surrounding a couple of small 20,000-gallon solvent tanks. Don't we need those types of heads to do this anywhere? These questions haunted us for a long time. My "foam guy" just kept shaking his head. "Just try it!" he said.