- Author
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Fraser, D. G.
- Title
- Sprayer-Duster as a Tool for Forest Fire Control.
- Coporate
- Forest Fire Research Inst., Ottawa, Canada
- Report
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Publication No. 1167
1967
17 p.
- Keywords
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forest fires
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fire suppression
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sprayers
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dry powders
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forestry
- Abstract
- A back-packed, air-blast-type machine designed to apply herbicides and insecticides, was tested as a forest fire control device using dry-powder extinguishants. Filled with ABC-type dry powder the machine extinguished fires burning in smasll test cribs of pine slash, but cound not - perhaps because of low capacity - control a fire in a section of a red pine plantation. Test results suggest the possibility of controlling crown fires with dry chemical extinguishants. The machine also quickly dried unlined forestry hose.