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High expansion foam was once a relatively popular concept, pitched as being very useful at basement , underground garage fires and other inaccessible fires in particular.

But its time seems to have come and gone.

Do we know if this was because it didn't really work as advertised, or simply that the number of incidents it was supposed to respond to was simply too small to justify keeping a unit like this on the run?

Added by Rob Johnson on 07 May 2020.

This has a post 74 Manchester Reg number, was it re re registered?

Added by Neal Glover on 07 May 2020.

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Andy:

Thanks for this detailed information!

If its use is prohibited when personnel are in the fire structure, no wonder these units have disappeared from public fire brigade vehicle fleets.

CAFS was originally developed by the US Navy for shipboard fires, as overloading a ship with plain water added a major stability problem in addition to the fire itself.

It seems that, although the expansion factor is a lot less than hi-ex, some brigades - especially in Germany - have found CAFS to be very useful at fires in confined spaces too...

Added by Rob Johnson on 08 May 2020.

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