Enables the citizen to handle most fires without the intercession of a fire department. Cuts heat, encapsulates the fuel source, cuts hydrocarbon smoke. Non-toxic, no mess, inexpensive.
(PRWEB) November 29 2003--
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by Sterling D. Allan
Greater Things News Service
Nov. 29, 2003
ROCKAWAY NJ
For more than a decade now, a product has been on the market that enables super quick and safe quenching of fires of any kind, from grease fires to oil refinery fires to tire fires. There is not a fire it cannot put out -- and it does so much faster and more effectively than any other methods on the market. On top of that, it neutralizes the hydrocarbon particles, drastically cutting the smoke damage and danger that typically accompanies a fire. The smoke turns from black to white; and visibility increases.
What's more, it is non-toxic. As a plant based substance, if you accidentally swallow some, breath its evaporative fumes, or spray it in your eyes, it won't hurt you.
Other remarkable features are that it leaves no residue that has to be cleaned up after the fire is extinguished. It has an indefinite shelf life at temperatures between 32º and 150º F. Freeze-thaw does not effect its stability. It is biodegradable. It is not slippery. It is inexpensive.
It's called Cold Fire ®, manufactured by Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc. (www.firefreeze.com) and is being used in at least 123 different countries.
Cold Fire is a plant-based chemical that undergoes an endothermic reaction in the presence of heat, which means it pulls the heat out of a fire. It also encapsulates the fuel source to prevent additional burning. The encapsulating also separates the fuel from oxygen.
Heat, fuel, and oxygen are the three pillars of what create a fire. Cold Fire addresses all three.
Traditional products work by removing the oxygen from the fire by smothering it in some way or another, with varying levels of success. Some of these traditional methods of smothering are messy, and in some cases caustic, blistering the skin. Often, the mess of putting out the fire is as bad if not worse than the damage from the fire itself. The Halon extinguisher, deprives not just the fire of oxygen but also the people in vicinity, and has caused death by suffocation.
Compare that to Cold Fire, which is safe. In the case of a grease fire, a mist attachment on the nozzle of a Cold Fire dispenser enables the mixture to settle down on the fire without disrupting the surface tension, thus avoiding the flare-up that usually occurs. The fire is extinguished, and there is no chemical clean-up afterward.
It only takes a little Cold Fire solution mixed with water through an induction system, ranging usually from a 1% mixture for forest fires to 3% mixture for oil and tire fires, to do the trick. A 10% solution is recommended for stand alone extinguishers of small volume.
As with anything new, those who are converted to the existing methods don't always give way readily to something great that comes along. Some patience is required.
Presently, Cold Fire is UL listed as a Class A & B Wetting Agent (listing number 2N75) in accordance with NFPA standard 18 for wetting agents. Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc. is making gradual progress toward the code accrediting Cold Fire for more applications, and hopes to eventually be listed as an extinguisher for all fires.
If you wish to use Cold Fire as a fire extinguisher at home, you can purchase the solution, purchase a pressurizable tank (a one gallon weed sprayer will work), mix them yourself, and pressurize the tank yourself. That is completely legal and acceptable. If you are a business you will still need to have "approved" extinguishers on site as well to comply with code. A 2½ gallon rechargeable fire extinguisher tank costs $148.00. A one gallon weed sprayer can also work, though not as effectively, and costs as little as $10.00. One quart of Cold Fire retails at $16.95, and is enough to refill a one gallon 2½ times with a 10% solution. Fire Freeze sells a 12 oz pressurized can for $14.99 labeled as a "rapid cool down spray."
For around $61.00 you can get a Scotty Bottle attachment for your garden hose with a 5 quart tank that will induct Cold Fire solution in with the water at a 1% or 3% rate, turning your garden hose into a fire extinguisher that could handle a fire of nearly any size.
There are two companies in the U.S., Blaze Boss Manufacturers in Idaho (www.blazeboss.com) and Fire Chief Products in Oklahoma, that make a trailer that can be pulled behind a pick-up truck, complete with a Briggs and Stratton engine to pump the water and Cold Fire solution from a holding tank, turning a pick-up truck into a fire fighting rig. Cities strapped for funds, and communities in the boonies will be glad to know that a $6500 trailer with Cold Fire can approximately match the effectiveness of a fire truck. Less expensive trailers and units on skids are also available, down to as low as $1,200. "Any pick-up truck can be turned into a serious piece of fire fighting equipment," says Miner.
Cold Fire can be added to the booster tank of a fire truck, or it can be inducted like foam, depending on how the fire truck is equipped. Unlike foam, it does not have to be washed out of the hoses and lines after use. A five gallon bucket of Cold Fire costs $177.10 and with an induction rate of 3% into the water stream will give 167 gallons of fire-fighting solution.
Greg Smith is a Fire Chief in Genola Utah who has been using Cold Fire for three years. He says, "It has done everything they told us it would do. I've been very impressed with it." He's demonstrated it on car fires and said it cools the metal off so the fire doesn't restart. "There's no stink afterward. Usually car fires smell really bad." They use it on brush fires instead of class A foam. Same with fuel fires. "With Cold Fire, you just have to carry the one product. We've been really happy with it."
Smith tells of a time when a motorcycle caught on fire in the driveway of a home. "From a distance I could see the flames shooting 10 - 15 feet in the air," Smith said. The home owners had Cold Fire on hand and had the fire out by the time the fire department arrived.
Understandably, a few firemen are not quite as enthusiastic about this product that may reduce the need for their profession.
John Miner, a Cold Fire distributor in the Western states, does a demonstration in which he puts a tire in the front seat and another tire in the back seat, sprinkles them with petrol and then lights it. After the car is engulfed in flames, including the tires burning, he comes in with his Cold Fire water, and wearing no protective gear whatsoever (in fact he purposely just wears a T-shirt), douses the fire in short order with just one or two 2½ gallon extinguishers. The heat is dissipated. The vapors largely neutralized. It would take a 150 - 500 gallon fire truck to do the same thing.
In a demonstration put on by Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc., a 900 square foot tank full of crude oil, with gasoline spraying into the crude oil, is set on fire. The heat is tremendous, with flames reaching 100 feet high. Cold Fire put it out in 30 seconds, using two 1½ inch hose lines at 3% induction.
Cold Fire continues its testing and use within the oil refinery industry. In a recent test, Cold Fire was used to extinguish 3,000 gallons of diesel/gasoline mixture and one 55-gallon drum of Heptane. After a pre-burn of 5 minutes, Cold Fire extinguished this fire with a 3% solution, a 1½ inch hose with 120 psi on the nozzle. The extinguishment and cool-down was completed in just 1 minute 45 seconds, using just 15 gallons of Cold Fire mixed with 500 gallons of water.
Flammable chemicals are spilled on the ground, threatening to flash and burn. Spray Cold Fire on it and the ignition threat is profoundly reduced.
Then they let Cold Fire extinguished a oil refinery fire in a firefighter drill in one minute, using just one 1½ inch hose and 500 gallons of a 3% Cold Fire-water solution.
A coal mine fire was put out in just 12 - 15 hours using Cold Fire.
A forest fire was burning for several days, taking many structures with it. Cold Fire was then used in a 1% solution with water, and the fire was extinguished. It probably would have burned for ten more days otherwise.
The biggest killer of firemen is not fire but heart attacks -- more than 1/3 of all fire fighter deaths. They wear all that heavy equipment, and work in super hot conditions for hours on end; they get dehydrated and continue to work, and their heart gives out on them. On average one fireman dies every four days in the U.S.
Cold Fire drastically reduces the heat factor in fire fighting, it neutralizes the noxious hydrocarbon fumes emitted from the fire, it puts the fire out far more rapidly, and it drastically speeds up the clean up time because the amount of water-solution required is so much less.
In his demonstrations of Cold Fire's capabilities, John Miner used to take one situation at a time and show Cold Fire at work. Now he puts them all together -- the burning grease fire, the tire fire, the weed burner, the gas fire, the couch doused with petrol, and whatever else someone wants to test -- all burning in one huge conflagration. Then he puts it out rapidly with one 2½ gallon tank of 10% Cold Fire mixture.
Another demonstration he does is to take terry cloth, spray it with Cold Fire, set it on top of his hands with a couple of rubber hoses as well, then he takes a torch in the other hand and points the flame directly on the terry cloth on top of his hand for quite a while. It doesn't burn. His hand is unharmed. He hands you the cloth, and it is not hot.
Or he'll spray the Cold Fire solution up his bare arm, and then take the torch up his bare arm with no burning.
It sounds sensational, but it demonstrates how effective Cold Fire is in pulling out the heat.
"It works great on burns too," says Miner. Another reason why firemen should especially appreciate this product.
Insurance companies are beginning catch the drift of the ramifications of this product.
Most fires can be stopped before the fire department even arrives because the home owner can put out their own fire. Even deliberate acts of arson which usually result total loss can be quenched with Cold Fire.
If you're in a burning building, you spray this on a piece of cloth to breath through, and it neutralizes the toxic hydrocarbon fumes. Spray it on your person and you have much better chance of getting out, even if you have to leap through a wall of flame.
"We don't want to see firemen trying to use this to enter into a fire," says Mike Trulby, who has been with Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc. as Vice President since its inception in 1991, and who has years of firefighting experience. "There are too many variables." The chance of a serious or even fatal error is too high. "We spray it on a man down, and we avoid steam burns."
No wonder many of the automobile racing leagues now requires Cold Fire for their racers. They plan on having to walk through fire as part of their profession. It also puts out the tire and fuel fires very quickly. Cold Fire has saved many lives.
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Disclaimer
The above press release was produced by Greater Things News Service and does not reflect the official opinion of Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc.
SEE ALSO
List of Cold Fire Products and Related Equipment
http://www.JosephPrep.com/ColdFire/
(Sample TV Coverage)
New product may revolutionize fire fighting
KFOR-TV, OK - Nov 14, 2003
http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=1524623
Cold Fire - Online video by Fire Freeze Worldwide
http://www.gdiresearch.com/coldfire.WMV
REFERENCES
FireFreeze Worldwide, Inc. (www.firefreeze.com)
272 Route 46 East
Rockaway, NJ 07866
Phone: 973-627-0722
Fax: 973-627-2982
John Miner, Dealer (Western States, US)
(Fire Knot West Distributing)
150 N. Draper Ln., Provo, UT 84601
801-361-6736
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA): www.nfpa.org
1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02169-7471 USA
Telephone: +1 617 770-3000 Fax: +1 617 770-0700
Greg Smith, Fire Chief, Genola, Utah
801-754-3673; cell: 801-360-2311
Blaze Boss: http://www.blazeboss.com
Phone:1 208 672 1246; Fax 1 208 672 1249
e-mail blaze@blazeboss.com
Primary Business Address: 12554 W Bridger # 122; Boise, Idaho 83713
Fire Chief Products; First Responder (http://www.firechiefproducts.us/)
Oklahoma
bmiller@firechiefproducts.us
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