- Author
- Fraser, D. G.
- Title
- Sprayer-Duster as a Tool for Forest Fire Control.
- Coporate
- Forest Fire Research Inst., Ottawa, Canada
- Report
- Publication No. 1167, 1967, 17 p.
- Keywords
- forest fires | fire suppression | sprayers | dry powders | 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.