Introduction Do you have a fire extinguisher at home ... Yet another option is to cover the fire with a layer of foam, carbon dioxide gas or dry chemicals that stop air from reaching the flames.

Viet Tran and Seth Robertson’s new fire extinguisher looks a little like ... With water, powder, foam and chemicals, there are already many means of dousing a flame, so it may be hard to imagine ...

This is the hilarious moment a dog set off a fire extinguisher and left an entire pub full of punters covered in white foam. The video shows the dog accidentally setting it off by leaping after ...

It's called the Vacuum Extinguish Method, or VEM for short. A typical fire extinguisher works by spraying carbon dioxide foam, which, if operated properly and quickly, will damp down any flames.

Clara Adams, of Salinas, Calif., finished first in the 400-meter final but was stripped of her title following the race ...

Ryan Pennington looks at the 2 1/2-gallon water extinguisher and how the ... squeeze and stop the fire Adding Class A foam or dish detergent can help increase firefighting output Adding a ...

An added bonus – when you try to burn it the foam generates carbon dioxide – the chemical in fire extinguishers –to put itself out. Very clever, indeed. The ingredients of the mineral-based foam are ...

Fighting fire usually involves water or foam, but they can be messy and environmentally destructive. Engineers at Ohio State University have now developed handheld tools that cleanly extinguish ...

These dubious contractors charge commercial property owners almost RM60 to RM150 for every fire extinguisher checked ... CO2, water, foam and those that are chemical-based.

Both the fire and Foresight's responses to it remained secret until a local environmental activist took pictures of foam that had drifted to above-ground ditches and farm fields near the mine ...