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FIRE SUPPRESSION The use of working lines on chunk and Fire Fighting Options chipped tires, however, can be effective when used in a fog application. Here Truly, your options are only limited by again, separating the inventory from the knowledge, experience, and imagination. burn area is important to the control and Many tire fires have been fought extinguishment of chipped and chunk tires purposely or experimentally using material. variations on all three options. Foams Cement kiln dust was considered to extinguish one tire fire. It was hoped that The use of foam would best be employed by ramming a pipe towards the center of on small tire fires or when the fire is in the fire, kiln dust, prepared as a slurry, the incipient stage. Again, pulling a larger could be pumped through the piping to tire pile apart with heavy machinery and grout out the fire. Steel belts and masses applying foam would be a prudent use of of molten synthesized rubber of course the product. waylaid this consideration. There is no question of foam's effectiveness when fighting a flowing oil CLEAN-UP & OVERHAUL fire. Check the manufacturer's specifications, and be sure to use a foam Unlike traditional structural fires or that is environmentally friendly. The price wildland fires, clean-up on tire fires will in of foam compared to its effectiveness in all probability be turned over to an fighting three dimensional tire fires should appropriate environmental protection be evaluated by your own department. agency. However, the fire service has Foam should only be employed as part of been involved to some degree with this a predetermined strategy. task. Aerial Suppression Even though the fire is out does not mean you are out of harm's way. Toxicity levels The use of aerial suppression techniques of tire fire sites suggest high may be taken into consideration for concentrations of contaminates. Fly ash fighting tire fires. The cost versus benefit and contaminated soil blown around the should also be evaluated. Aerial water site may increase your exposure risks. drops were used on the Hagersville, Ontario and Welds County, Colorado fire What to do about the high levels of zinc and did not appear effective. in the soil will continually be a source of debate. The Winchester tire fire site, which contaminated the soil 100 feet down, was not considered an immediate health risk unless ingested. Since the fire, 51