Fire Foam Test Goes very Wrong !

Made from a Power Point Presentation, stills as movie but great show.

This was the result of a test and demonstration going to far - the shut-off did not function properly.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• fire
• foam

[termitemfp]

I might be wrong but doesn't the HALON systems suck the oxygen out of the air?

[steveoa3d]

Halon systems displace the oxygen and can therefore kill everything in the closed room. Fire foam also removes the oxygen from the fire triangle but does not remove the air above the fire.

This is not a Halon system...

[bulletburposmiley]

Could you breathe under all that foam if you were at the floor of the hangar?

[steveoa3d]

Never thought about that, since the foam removes the oxygen from fire triangle and therefore puts out the fire, one would think it would remove the air needed to breathe !

[terminator00000]

How do you post your power point as a video on youtube.

[steveoa3d]

I turned the powerpoint into a .avi file with a screen capture recorder. Then I edited it in windows movie maker. Crude tools but I got it done....

[Haakon45]

GET THE DISCO LIGHTS AND THE DJ'S BUBBLE PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!

atleast you know you have enough to put out pretty much anything

[Libelula1951]

This test was a success. Nothing went wrong. High expansion foam is supposed to do this. The side effect is that the whole room gets cleaned.

[od7m25z9]

World biggest foam party? ;)

[NORML85]

I mean... I'd much rather have the thing not shut off than not coming on, thats for sure.

[brz1968]

put her in a glass box with a lit candles and a HALON system. She would light the candle and then activate the system, extinguishing the candles and then stand there and smile and wave at people. She would then attempt to relight the candles (which could not be done) then open the door letting outside are in (allowing her to relight the candles) and repeat the demonstration.

[brz1968]

@steveoa3d HALON does not "displace the oxygen" to remove it from the fire triangle. It does break down and combine with hydrogen in the air and interrupts the chemical reaction that is fire (fire tetrehedron) thereby extinguishing the flame. Once the flame is out, the triangle collapses due to lack of heat (triangle = heat, fuel, oxygen). As part of the demonstrations for Halon back in the '80's at Fire Conferences, HALON manufacturers would actually take a woman in a bikini and

[brz1968]

@termitemfp Actually, you are wrong, HALON does not suck the oxygen out of the room, it interrupts the chemical reaction taking place, thus extinguishing the fire. The atmosphere surrounding the flame remains safe to breathe when the system is operated properly.

[smithyboi6]

Anyone else scared of drowning in this shit?

[eaglehawk111]

Is this stuff biodegradable or something like that? How does it go away?

[pattycarljackson]

the system runs for a 1 min they have to fill up a certaint area within that time if they dont they system needs to be checked

[joek0617]

@steveoa3d halon is also very bad for you

[aeouihtn]

Halons aren't toxic, but they do cause mild intoxication, and can displace oxygen if used in high-volume dump systems. That's not it's primary method of operation, though. They operate primarily by combining with the flammable gasses released by high temperature liquids and solids (liquids and solids themselves are rarely flammable, with the exception of metals) and rendering them inert.

This is video isn't a halon system, though, it's foam.