Fire safety/Fire extinguishers - what to buy etc

[Phil Pascoe]

Even smoking cigarettes takes 30/40 years of doing it constantly to end up with chronic issues.

I was serving a dozen or so newly qualified doctors in a bar one night (20 years ago) and commented that I was surprised most of them smoked. They said it was fine, it did no harm so long as you gave up by the time you were thirty.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Back in the day (re Henniep, above), the foam agent on HM ships, in a yellow drum with a pierceable lid IIRC was ox blood!

Plus it worked well.
FB5X and FRB10X

 

[Chubber]

Plus it worked well.
FB5X and FRB10X

Whale Island NBCD Instructor's Course?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Whale Island NBCD Instructor's Course?

That and the famous Fire ship HMS Bristol.

 

[Superduner]

I seem to remember that when I worked in a refinery in the Middle East they had to use a special fire fighting foam as the normal stuff was made of pigs' blood (a no-no for Muslims, of course)

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I seem to remember that when I worked in a refinery in the Middle East they had to use a special fire fighting foam as the normal stuff was made of pigs' blood (a no-no for Muslims, of course)

From 1979 Oe blood foam agents were to be phasd out. The Armed forces used up stock.
They new agent is commonly called AFFF.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I seem to remember that when I worked in a refinery in the Middle East they had to use a special fire fighting foam as the normal stuff was made of pigs' blood (a no-no for Muslims, of course)

I remember reading that a problem at the time of the Indian Mutiny was that beef fat and pork fat were used in the making of shells so offending both Muslims and Hindus.

 

[Chubber]

That and the famous Fire ship HMS Bristol.

...Amazon's Tyne uptake fires were my r
first real '.. baptism of fire'.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

...Amazon's Tyne uptake fires were my r
first real '.. baptism of fire'.

eeeeeek