Foam Basics Properties, Performance And Proportioners

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Foam BasicsProperties, Performance And
Proportioners
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Points To Ponder

• Think of changes in the fire service over the
  past 50 years, (or 5 years)
• What have we done to improve safety?
• How many of these changes have improved fire
  attack capability?

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Fire Fighting Then And Now

• Improved safety
• Full PPE
• SCBA
• Seat-belted inside the cab, air bags
• Improved warning lights and sirens
• Combination nozzles
• Non-slip step surfaces
• Vehicle striping, etc.
• Improved attack capabilities, (also a safety
  issue)
• Class A foam and CAFS
• More synthetics used in construction has caused
  flashover to drop from 25-30 min to 3-5 min

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Points To Ponder

• Which changes have you embraced?
• Which changes have you resisted?
• Why?

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Facilitating Change

• People would rather live with a problem they
  cannot solve, than embrace a solution or concept
  they do not understand
• Therefore, the key to changeis through
  education
• Our goal - to educate
• Knowledge is the antidoteto fear (Ralph Waldo
  Emerson)