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Fire prevention, protection and firefighting.
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fire hydraulics
Fire safety; Fire fighting
The study of pumps, hoses, pipes, accessories and tools for moving water or other extinguishing agents from a water supply to a fire.
hose pack
Fire safety; Fire fighting
A hose pack is a backpack containing fire hose in a preconfigured arrangement, sometime completely made from fire hose without a bag.
flammable range, limits
Fire safety; Fire fighting
The percentage mixture of fumes with air that will sustain fire; outside the limits the mixture is either too lean or too rich to burn.
lower flammable Limit (LFL)
Fire safety; Fire fighting
The lowest percentage concentration by volume of flammable vapour or gas in air which will burn with a flame under specified conditions.
apparatus
Fire safety; Fire fighting
A term usually used by firefighters describing a piece of mobile firefighting equipment, such as a pumper, a tanker, a ladder truck, etc.
contained fire
Fire safety; Fire fighting
A fire restricted to boundaries established by fire fighters.ʊ
fire-resistant
Fire safety; Fire fighting
Materials designed or treated to have an increased fire point.
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