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No Fire in the Hole!: Firefighters Use Flame-Retardant Grenades
A new grenadelike gadget—designed to quickly extinguish flames in small quarters, thereby limiting injury to victims as well as firefighters—is becoming an important part of firemen's arsenals.
More than 37 fire departments along the U.S. east coast now carry Vancouver-based ARA Safety's FIT-5 (for fire interruption technology). The device, available to firefighters since December, is a means of knocking down or even extinguishing fires in rooms, basements and attics.... [more]
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- Scientific American Mind posted 8/20/08 | 1 comments
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