- Author
- Scheffey, J. P. | Siegmann, C. W., III | Toomey, T. A. | Williams, F. W. | Farley, J. P.
- Title
- 1994 Attack Team Workshop: Phase 2. Full-Scale Offensive Fog Attack Tests.
- Coporate
- Hughes Associates, Inc., Baltimore, MD Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
- Report
- NRL/MR/6180-97-7944, April 24, 1997, 308 p.
- Keywords
- fog | ships | shipboard fires | fire fighting | containment | water fog
- Identifiers
- Naval Ships Technical Manual (NSTM) 555; post-flashover; offensive fog attack; Fleet Doctrine Evaluation (FDE)
- Abstract
- Shipboard firefighting is accomplished in one or a combination of three techniques: (a) for a incipient or growing fire, the preferred method is DIRECT ATTACK; (b) if the fire has grown beyond being handleable by the direct attack, the INDIRECT ATTACK is preferred followed by a direct attack; and (c) in large post-flashover fires, a CONTAINMENT strategy is first initiated following by indirect and then a direct attack. This report demonstrates the benefits of using a medium angle fog stream to control the overhead fire threat when conducting a direct attack on a growing/steady state fire where the sea of the fire is obstructed. This greatly reduces the time required to control and extinguish a rapidly growing post flashover fire which previously could only be handled with the time-consuming techniques of indirect attack.