Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

[George William Herbert <gherbert () retro com>]

Barry wrote:
> I worked three years with the boston fire dept, albeit quite a few
> years ago, and rode into many fires and don't generally remember them
> being much concerned about hitting *anything* with a high-pressure
> stream of water if it's on fire.
>
> Remember all those rules you know about not using water on electrical
> or chemical fires? Doesn't really count if you have charged fire hoses
> and know what you're doing except in some special circumstances (they
> did foam things occasionally, very occasionally, foam costs money!)

Around here (Silli Valley) the firefighters I know are pretty aware
of the risks of electricity.  They say that some of them have been
fried by UPSes.

And hazmat; we have the large containers of WMD-grade-toxic silicon fab
gases being shipped around.


-george william herbert
gherbert () retro com