Gasoline Firefighting Case Study

Getting cats out of trees remains a simple task for firefighters compared to what will be discussed today. The fire service industry faces multiple challenges from day to day and from call to call. Firefighting remains a great deal more than hanging out and resting at the firehouse. Firefighting has a broad spectrum, for example, responding to motor vehicle incidents all the way to responding to large gasoline truck fires. In the scenario I will to provide, in greater detail, when it comes to fighting different types of flammable liquid fires and the appropriate approach that should be taken to effectively extinguish gasoline fires. Gasoline fires remain extremely different to each other, similar to various incidents in which firefighters respond to day to day. The scenario exists in the town of Yonkers New York. The scenario contains an 8,900-gallon gasoline tanker overturned on a New York Thruway right after midnight. The first arriving unit found the gasoline burning with another vehicle involved. The other vehicle crashed into the gasoline tanker causing the gasoline to ignite. The tanker remained beneath a bridge
Present time a person will encounter alcohol based fire where the need of AR-AFFF foam will be used in the event of a tanker fire or flammable liquid spill. The AFFF foam will not serve the purpose for burning fuel spilled due to the alcohol content used in the mixture. The AR-AFFF foam will provide a longer resistance in the event of vapor suppression of non-ignited fuels. The ethanol blended gasoline used in today’s vehicles will be seen increasingly on the roadways and precautionary measures should be taken by firefighters to ensure the apparatus stays equipped to the correct foam. The AR-AFFF would be the choice of foam for ethanol based fuel due to the resistance of alcohol based foam. The AFFF application will cause reaction and could cause the fire to burn throughout the