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Foam BasicsFoam BasicsProperties, Performance And ProportionersProperties, Performance And Proportioners

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Points To PonderPoints To Ponder

• Think of changes in the fire service over the past 50 years, (or 5 years):

– What have we done to improve safety?

– How many of these changes have improved fire attack capability?

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Fire Fighting Then And NowFire Fighting Then And Now• Improved safety:

– Full PPE– SCBA– Seat-belted inside the cab, air bags– Improved warning lights and sirens– Combination nozzles– Non-slip step surfaces– Vehicle striping, etc.

• Improved attack capabilities, (also a safety issue):– Class A foam and CAFS

– More synthetics used in construction has caused flashover to drop from 25-30 min to 3-5 min

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Points To PonderPoints To Ponder

• Which changes have you embraced?

• Which changes have you resisted?

– Why?

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Facilitating ChangeFacilitating Change• People would rather live with a problem they

cannot solve, than embrace a solution or concept they do not understand

• Therefore, the key to changeis through education

• Our goal - to educate

• Knowledge is the antidoteto fear (Ralph Waldo Emerson)