ON THE GUARD OF THE FOREST - FIRE FLATTENER
The fire cracker is designed both for independent use and for use in combination with knapsack forest fire extinguishers. Extinguishing the edge of the fire is carried out by stopping the access of oxygen to the source of combustion and the use of carbon dioxide and dust to extinguish hidden sources. This tool is designed to extinguish small fires, such as when the edge of the grass is on fire. As a rule, it is used to extinguish the edge of a ground fire. Much more effective than the use of improvised means, such as tree branches.
Benefits of using
To extinguish the edge of forest fires, fires of low intensity, fires in grass forest types and grass fires in open areas, improvised means prepared in the immediate vicinity of the fire are often used. It can be a bunch of freshly broken hardwood branches or a small hardwood tree.
Extinguishing the edge of a fire with branches is hard physical work, the leaves quickly fly around and the broom must be periodically updated, while the extinguishing efficiency with improvised means is disproportionately lower compared to a specialized tool for sweeping the flame - a fire cracker. Fire crackers, depending on the material used in the manufacture, are of two types: soft and hard.
A soft fire cracker is made of non-combustible rubberized material, and a hard one is made of narrow metal plates arranged in a fan.
Extinguishing technology
A forest firefighter knocks down a flame with a fire cracker in such a way that first the heel of the cracker touches the base of the flame of the earth, and the canvas of the cracker knocks down the flame and discards the combustion products to the ashes. Then the fireman presses it to the ground and stretches it a little along the edge of the fire.
A fire cracker is an inexpensive, simple, lightweight and effective forest fire tool for extinguishing fugitive ground fires, which does not require such scarce water when extinguishing any fire, which favorably distinguishes it in all the variety of forest fire equipment.
The use of fire crackers at times increases the productivity of extinguishing a grass fire.
Design
The cracker consists of a nozzle and a handle. The nozzle is a rubber rectangular plate, the upper part of which is securely fixed between two pads with four screws and nuts. The lower part of the plate oscillates freely in the vertical plane. To one of the overlays, a shell for the handle is welded. Tuleika is made in the form of a sleeve with a rod. The tip of the nozzle fits snugly without play on the handle and is connected to it with a self-tapping screw.