METHOD OF FOREST FIRE PREVENTION AND EXTINGUISHING Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: fire fighting, particularly for protection forests against fires.

SUBSTANCE: method involves detecting fire risk area in forestry, determining outline of this area; calculating necessary quantity of fire suppression agent fed for fire prevention and suppression in the area; providing above forestry area with fire suppression means formed as flat elongated flexible coaxial hose with annular space filled with material which accumulates fire-suppression liquid so that volume of accumulated fire-suppression liquid is locally distributed through material structure to prevent flow-over and leakage thereof without fire fighting; providing discharge of fire-suppression liquid when fire takes place. When fire occurs part of coaxial flexible hose wall is damaged by fire and overheated fire-suppression liquid is thrown out under high pressure from this hose part with reservation of remainder fire-suppressant liquid in other parts of hose for carrying out the same operations in other locations of forestry area to be protected.

EFFECT: increased reliability and efficiency, prevention of fire development.

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