Terrace Mountain Fire-2009
Firefox Wildfire
Rapid Wildfire
Suppression at Scale
4 Days. 4.8 Million Liters. One Contained Wildfire.
- Fire had been burning for a couple weeks.
- Then it grew from 2600 to 10000 hectares in 1 day. Out of control.
- Wildfire threatened “signal hill”, where expensive transmission towers located.
- Firefox was called in to “assist” with trying to control it.
- Setup dip tanks and helicopters started lining up to load.
- 4,800,000 liters used to extinguish the flame front.
- Fire was OUT in 4 days.
Firefox Wildfire
Comments were that the Gel was realy impressive. He had never seen anything like that before.
He introduced Firefox to FP Innovations, and recommended that Gel get tested for use in Alberta.