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bring sufficient activation energy including electricity, radiation, and pressure, all of which will lead to a temperature rise. In most cases, heat production enables self-sustainability of the reaction, and enables a chain reaction to grow. The temperature at which a liquid produces sufficient vapor to get a flammable mix with self-sustainable combustion is called its flash-point.
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for aiding fire spread especially by preheating upslope fuels, and ignitions sources are important to help explain recurrence on longer time scales. Similarly, while oxygen is relevant to sustain a flame, weather and associated winds feed oxygen into a spreading fire, and the longer-term pattern of weather is summarized as climate. Lastly,
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concept. Global climate change drives many of the factors involved in the 'wildfire' and the 'fire regime' triangles. For example, with respect to the fire regime, a particular vegetation type will support a characteristic fire in terms of recurrence, intensity, seasonality and biological effects; a
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At the smallest scale, the combustion fire triangle, individual fuel particles are ignited once at a critical temperature, and fire transfers energy to the nearest surroundings. Combustion events range on the scale of several seconds to a couple of days and their effects are monitored at the quadrant
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In the context of wildland fire, the fire triangle can be scaled up to apply to fire spread over landscapes (scales of days and several kilometres) and recurrence of fire over time (scales of decades and hundreds of kilometres). Thus, while heat is important to ignite a flame, topography is important
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The water can have two different roles. In the case of a solid combustible, the solid fuel produces pyrolyzing products under the influence of heat, commonly radiation. This process is halted by the application of water, since water is more easily evaporated than the fuel is pyrolyzed. Thereby energy
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The reaction is initiated by an activating energy — in most cases, it is heat. Several examples include friction, as in the case of matches, heating an electrical wire, a flame (propagation of fire), or a spark (from a lighter or from any starting electrical device). There are also many other ways to
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can not be separated from the oxidizer, and the only possible action consists of cooling down. In this case, water droplets are evaporated in the gas phase, thereby lowering the temperature and adding water vapour making the gas mixture non combustible. This requires droplets of a size less than
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Cases also exist where the ignition factor is not the activation energy. For example, a smoke explosion is a very violent combustion of unburned gases contained in the smoke created by a sudden fresh air input (oxidizer input). The interval in which an air/gas mix can burn is limited by the
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Without sufficient heat, a fire cannot begin, and it cannot continue. Heat can be removed by the application of a substance which reduces the amount of heat available to the fire reaction. This is often water, which absorbs heat for phase change from water to steam. Introducing sufficient
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Multi-scale fire triangles describing the elements of wildland fire at the scale of the flame, a wildfire, and a fire regime. Adapted from Moritz et al. (2005) Wildfire, complexity, and highly optimized tolerance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102,
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Without fuel, a fire will stop. Fuel can be removed naturally, as where the fire has consumed all the burnable fuel, or manually, by mechanically or chemically removing the fuel from the fire. Fuel separation is an important factor in
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blocks oxygen and can extinguish a fire. In large fires where firefighters are called in, decreasing the amount of oxygen is not usually an option because there is no effective way to make that happen in an extended area.
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or even class A + class B + class F ), meaning a better global performance and usability of a single extinguisher on many different types of fires (or fires that involve several different classes of materials).
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In certain cases such as some explosives, the oxidizer and combustible are the same (e.g., nitroglycerin, an unstable molecule that has oxidizing parts in the same molecule as the oxidizeable parts).
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Without sufficient oxygen, a fire cannot begin, and it cannot continue. With a decreased oxygen concentration, the combustion process slows. Oxygen can be denied to a fire using a carbon dioxide
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is the term to describe what burns in a single flame to the range of materials burnt in a spreading wildfire, but fuels vary over larger space and time scales in what is called
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The oxidizer is the other reactant of the chemical reaction. In most cases, it is the ambient air, and in particular one of its components, oxygen (O
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quantities and types of powder or gas in the flame reduces the amount of heat available for the fire reaction in the same manner. Scraping
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from a burning structure also removes the heat source. Turning off the electricity in an electrical fire removes the ignition source.
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chain reaction sustains the fire and allows it to continue until or unless at least one of the elements of the fire is blocked:
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Since these reactions are well understood, it has been possible to create specific water-additives which will allow:
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is a chemical reaction that feeds a fire more heat and allows it to continue. Once a fire has started, the resulting
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In the same way, as soon as one of the four elements of the tetrahedron is (entirely) removed, combustion stops.
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is stopped, removing the fuel supply to the flames. In fire fighting, this is referred to as surface cooling.
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can be used to lower the temperature of the fuel below the ignition point, or to remove or disperse the fuel.
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Fires where live electricity is present – as water conducts electricity it presents an electrocution hazard.
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and create a barrier of inert gas in a direct attack on the chemical reaction responsible for the fire.
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Water-additives are generally designed to be effective on several categories of fires (class A +
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Moritz, Max A.; Morais, Marco E.; Summerell, Lora A.; Carlson, J. M.; Doyle, John (2005-12-13).
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To stop a combustion reaction, one of the three elements of the fire triangle must be removed.
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explosive limits of the air. This interval can be very small (kerosene) or large (acetylene).
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Carrying specific reactives which will react and change the nature of the burning material.
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about 0.2 mm. In fire fighting, this is referred to as gas cooling or smoke cooling.
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Metal fires – as these fires produce huge amounts of energy (up to 7.550 calories/kg for
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Hydrocarbon fires – as it will only spread the fire because of the difference in density/
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to enable water to stay on the surface of a liquid fire and prevent gas release.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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change in vegetation type will have implications for a changing fire regime.
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is a simple model for understanding the necessary ingredients for most
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The triangle illustrates the three elements a fire needs to ignite:
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Information about the Fire Triangle/Tetrahedron and Combustion
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suppression, and is the basis for most major tactics, such as
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The fire tetrahedron represents the addition of the chemical
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National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
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Essentials of Fire Fighting and Fire Department Operations
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A better heat absorption with a higher density than water.
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In the gas phase, i.e. in the flames or in the smoke, the
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is removed from the fuel surface and it is cooled and the
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scale. The largest scale, in contrast, describes the
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Model for understanding the 3 ingredients for fires
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Index

Fire tetrahedron

fires
heat
fuel
oxidizing agent
oxygen
fire blanket
NFPA 704

tetrahedron
chain reaction
Combustion
exothermic
foam
water
halon
free radicals
lithium
magnesium
titanium
class-D fire
exploding
bellows
perchlorate
ammonium perchlorate
chlorine trifluoride
embers
wildland fire
controlled burns

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