Random thoughts, opinions and facts on firefighting and training.

Cooling outside of the fire compartment will probably do very little to suppress the fire fire behavior fire suppression Mar 21, 2023

This is a video clip from training in an acquired...

Cleaning the lens on a thermal imager camera (TIC) is important for image clarity fire behavior fire suppression Mar 17, 2023

This is video footage from a live fire training in an...

Straight streams for smoke cooling, what is missing? fire suppression Sep 12, 2022

Straight streams have been used for fire suppression for...

Negative pressure in the fire compartment at suppression fire behavior fire suppression Aug 30, 2021

In this video we can see the short initial pressures...

Dry chemical extinguisher suppresses room and content fire fire behavior fire suppression Jun 21, 2021

In this video we can see how a dry chemical (powder)...

A vakt fyrir Island 2019 - Lars Axelsson - Things I wish I knew when I went to my first fire fire behavior fire suppression Nov 25, 2019

This is a presentation I made on a conference in Iceland....

IFIW 2019 - Straight and fog streams for interior attack - Lars Axelsson fire behavior fire suppression ifiw Jul 10, 2019

The question of nozzle selection and nozzle technique for...