Cutting it fine

摘要

ARFF firefighters at Glasgow Prestwick Airport are shortly bringing a new high-pressure cutting extinguisher from Angus Fire into operational readiness, following the necessary risk and impact assessments and operational training. During 2016 Glasgow Prestwick Airport viewed a number of cutting extinguishers and in January this year invited three companies to tender. The power of high-pressure cutting extinguishers had been witnessed at first hand at the airport's fire behaviour unit, where crib fires raised temperatures up to 700°C and hand-held cutting extinguishers lowered them to below 100°C in a matter of seconds.