Since 1877, when foam was first introduced as a fire suppression agent, it has been part of the firefighters’ arsenal. Over 100 years later, in the 1980s, foam was popularized as an effective wildland ...

A 40,000 square-foot aircraft hangar in Portsmouth was filled with fire extinguishing foam Tuesday to test the emergency fire extinguishing system, officials said.PlaneSense, Inc., an aircraft ...

Successful retrofit to first newbuilding sees Aberdeen-based owner specify further Low Expansion Foam system for second China-built jack-up. Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS) has received a repeat ...

With the exception of sprinklers, most fixed fire extinguishing systems rely on total flooding with gas. Here Tim Nichols looks at some ingenious examples of equipment using gas or foam for specific, ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — A fire suppression system at a Brunswick Executive Airport hangar showed deficiencies about a year before it discharged gallons of firefighting foam containing harmful ...

In case you were wondering: Mixing alcohol with muscular fire suppression foam systems is not a good idea. A Marine in Okinawa, Japan, who was allegedly drunk, learned that lesson recently, according ...