Recent questions tagged fire fighting

Description : Can you put out an out of control wildfire out with explosives?

Last Answer : Red Adair put out oil well fires with explosives. A stoichiometric mix of acetylene or popane and oxygen will make a blast that leaves only carbon dioxide and water vapor in its wake. It deprives the fire of oxygen.

Description : Will we ever have a Red Adair style Volcano Firefighter?

Last Answer : answer:physically impossible the forces involved are HUGE! and even if you could it would just pop up somewhere else, its kind of an earthly requirement that we have volcanoes its part of what created our ... with it over the last 100yrs or so. alternatively go live on the moon no volcanoes there!

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