Fire-fighting Vehicles Research Articles

Auxiliary Equipment

Details of Some Components Used for Subsidiary Services in Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. Pneumatic equipment supplied by Enots Ltd., the fluid engineers, controls the foam system on two fire fighting and rescue vehicles built recently by Merry‐weather & Sons Ltd., a member of the Tecalmit group of companies, for use at Speke. The pneumatic controls provide a simple, flexible command system for both delivery of the foam to the fire and for replenishing the vehicle's tank after use.

THE FIRE FIGHTING TRUCK IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

SUMMARY The fire control problem deals with intensively managed softwood forest areas. The early use of the fire fighting truck in South Australia was associated with good access conditions in plantation areas. Improvement of truck performance in loose sand has been obtained by changes in gear ratio (to low gear of 8 to 1). and the size of wheels (reduced to 18 inches) and tyres (increased to 9 inches). Power pump equipment has changed from plunger pumps of low rate of delivery (5 gallons per minute) to centrifugal pumps, which are driven direct from high speed engines, and have an outlet of up to about 25 gallons pev minute. The 4-ton truck is the standard fire fighting vehicle. This is equipped with a 500 gallon tank, power pump with outlet through two “live” reels, and a hand pump, all fixed to a steel frame. The latest power pump has a flexible performance, with a range of delivery from 2.5 to 28.8 gallons per minute, and a stream distance up to 80 feel. The assembly of this unit, loading methods and ...

Forest service develops two-way radio for fire fighting vehicles

On the occasion of Georgius Agricola's 500th birthday in 1994 attention has been focused on the paint material found in an exemplar of his famous scientific book “De re metallica”. The very thin color coatings on the highly sensitive paper substrate represent a challenge to the power and the guaranteed non-destructiveness of IBA. The combined implementation of PIXE and RBS on the external proton beam setup allows one to determine the chemical elements of the pigments used and to identify the presence of organic layers. Results from selected colors are given to emphasize the complementary character of on-air PIXE-RBS analysis.