Yes, water will extinguish fire and sometimes you can get away with introducing that water into a compartment from an exterior opening. A fog stream introduced briefly into a pre-flashover room will suck up a lot of heat. That notion might have passed for “new” 30 years ago but now? Seriously?

i like the Quote, we’re in the trenches with the men then we get done up for the photo shoot, have you ever heard of a male firefighter say, well, i was in the trenches with a female firie and I really got her respect, I respect females in the job, but I don’t think the females should keep consistently cram this (we’re up to your standard) thing, we’re over it. anyway, well done with the calendars ladies, great cause, cheers Firie too..

As Fern noted, research needs to be published. In some cases this is in a research report, but frequently this means an article in a refereed journal. We have few refereed journals in in the fire service as most of our publications are magazines. The difference is that magazines do not subject their articles to a rigorous peer review process. There are many articles of value in Fire-Rescue, Fire Engineering, and Firehouse, but there are also some that are less than scientifically sound. The other challenge with research reports and refereed journals is that they are not read by most of the fire service. We need to communicate the results of (both experimental and action) research to the greater fire service community.

KTF is not experimental research, but it has tremendous value in making some of the science accessible and possibly stimulating additional research questions that can be addressed in the lab and with full scale experimental projects.

Hopefully I can dig out from under my current workload and get a couple of posts up about this project and the connections with prior and ongoing experimental research in the area of ventilation controlled fires, wetting agents, etc.