Cold Fire is a fire extinguisher product manufactured by Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc which has been on the market in many countries since 1991.

A press release [1] for the product makes the following claims:

Cold Fire is a plant-based chemical that undergoes an endothermic reaction in the presence of heat, which means it pulls the heat out of a fire. It also encapsulates the fuel source to prevent additional burning. The encapsulation also separates the fuel from oxygen.

Certifications

Presently, Cold Fire is UL listed as a Class A & B Wetting Agent (listing number 2N75) in accordance with NFPA (National Fire Protection Association, US) standard 18 for wetting agents. Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc. is making gradual progress toward the code accrediting Cold Fire for more applications, and hopes to eventually be listed as an extinguisher for all fires.

Applying Cold Fire

It only takes a little Cold Fire solution mixed with water through an induction system, ranging usually from a 1% mixture for forest fires to 3% mixture for oil fires and tire fires, to extinguish the fire. A 10% solution is recommended for stand alone extinguishers of small volume.

If you wish to use Cold Fire as a fire extinguisher at home, you can purchase the solution, purchase a pressurizable tank (a one gallon weed sprayer will work, though an extinguisher tank is recommended), mix them yourself, and pressurize the tank yourself. That is completely legal and acceptable. If you are a business you will still need to have approved extinguishers on site as well to comply with existing code, until the code is modified to accommodate Cold FireŽ.

Fire Freeze sells a 12 oz pressurized can labeled as a "rapid cool down spray."

A Scotty Bottle attachment for your garden hose with a 5 quart tank will induct Cold Fire solution in with the water at a 1% or 3% rate, turning your garden hose into a fire extinguisher that could handle a fire of nearly any size.

There are two companies in the U.S., Blaze Boss Manufacturers in Idaho (http://www.blazeboss.com) and Fire Chief Products in Oklahoma, that make a trailer that can be pulled behind a pick-up truck, complete with a Briggs and Stratton engine to pump the water and Cold Fire solution from a holding tank, turning a pick-up truck into a fire fighting rig. Cities strapped for funds, and communities in the boonies will be glad to know that a $6500 trailer with Cold Fire can approximately match the effectiveness of a fire truck. Less expensive trailers and units on skids are also available, down to as low as $1,200. A pick-up truck can be turned into a serious piece of fire fighting equipment.

Cold Fire can be added to the booster tank of a fire truck, or it can be inducted like foam, depending on how the fire truck is equipped. Unlike foam, it does not have to be washed out of the hoses and lines after use.

Sample Uses

Cold Fire has been demonstrated to extinguish fires of all kind, including tire fires, oil refinery fires, a coal mine fire, forest fires, tanker fires, electrical fires. It can also be used preventatively on spills of volatile chemicals to reduce the chance that they will flash. A person inside a burning building can spray cold fire on themselves to increase chances of safe escape.

Fireman's Friend

The biggest killer of firemen is not fire but heart attacks -- more than 1/3 of all fire fighter deaths. They wear all that heavy equipment, and work in super hot conditions for hours on end; they get dehydrated and continue to work, and their heart gives out on them. On average one fireman dies every four days in the U.S.

Cold Fire drastically reduces the heat factor in fire fighting, it neutralizes the noxious hydrocarbon fumes emitted from the fire, it puts the fire out far more rapidly, and it drastically speeds up the clean up time because the amount of water-solution required is so much less.

Other Applications

Fire Freeze Worldwide is also working with the U.S. Army (Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah) to use the chemicals in Fire Freeze in conjunction with an enzyme, which combined have promise to thwart biological and chemical warfare.

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