- Author
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Truax, T. R.
- Title
- Making Wood Fire Retardant. Information Reviewed and Reaffirmed.
- Coporate
- Forest Products Lab., Madison, WI
- Report
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No. 1760
March 1956
10 p.
- Book or Conf
- American Railway Engineering Association Committee No. 6. March 16, 1950,
Chicago, IL,
['1950', '1956']
- Keywords
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forest fires
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fire suppression
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chemical fire fighting
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chemical foams
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field tests
- Abstract
- The report of your committee is of interest and value in showing the problem the railroads have in protecting their bridges and trestles from fire and in indicating the measures that are currently being used or contemplated in the protection of such structures. Your chairman suggested that it would be of interest to the members of the committee if I would review briefly fire retardant treatments for wood in a broad way, indicating their fields of usefulness or potential use. He has further indicated an interest in having me do a bit of crystal ball gazing as to possible future developments in new materials and new approaches that hold promise. I make no claims, however, as a prophet. States Forest Service, with the objective of learning whether chemicals could be used to advantage in forest fire control and suppression. Studies of limited extent had been made at various times in the past, but no continuous and comprehensive investigation had ever before een attempted in this country. The use of chemicals as extinguishers for other classs of fires and under other conditions has stimulated the interest of both the public and those responsible for the protection of forest areas from fire in the possibilities of their use in forest fire suppression.