Thursday, January 31, 2008







Just another day at the office. This is a flashover chamber. In essence a shipping container with a 50 gallon barrel and a bunch of plywood to simulate walls. We all tromp in there with our gear and our baked potato covered helmets(without the covering our helmets would melt to our noggins). We are there to experience what a flashover is like. Our gear is so good that if we are not careful we could get in too deep in a flashover environment(this is bad even with our gear). We are taught once we see the signs of a flashover we have mere seconds to react. Oh, a flashover is when all contents in a room reach the point of ignition simultaneously. This is a very bad situation in a real fire but quite fun in a controlled environment.



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