Police in Thailand say that a fire extinguisher exploded in sweltering heat during an outdoor fire drill at a high school in Bangkok on Friday, killing one student and injuring five others.
Rather than fighting wildfires in the traditional way — using aircraft to drop chemical retardants on the blaze while ground crews clear brush that could be potential fuel — the Air Force should try to bomb it.
A raging fire, and in this case, a planned demonstration, shows how a new device known as an FST, a fire suppression tool, can knock down a fire in seconds.
A bomb containing an explosive and a fire extinguishing chemical so that the bomb can be exploded within a fire and extinguish the fire flames; the bomb including a glass cylinder that can be readily fragmented so to disperse its chemical content into all directions and the glass cylinder havi…
Several safety precautions would have to be taken to ensure the fire extinguisher explodes safely.
https://apnews.com/article/bangkok-school-fire-extinguisher-death-1143332d5c859d78d93ab357cc5c6606
This could be an excellent solution when dealing with wildfires.
Police and civilians can use these in emergencies to put out fires quickly!
Someone already has a patent for this idea!
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3980139A/en
It could be a great way to protect firefighters from harm when dealing with raging fires.