A sodium polyacrylate and distilled water composition for fire and smoke prevention, suppression or extinction, and methods of making and using the same.

A portable fire shelter that utilizes an absorbent layer that is impregnated with a fire resistant liquid or gel. The fire shelter is packaged in a way that prevents the liquid or gel from evaporating or hardening. The fire shelter can be transported to the fire zone using robots or drones, and when deployed the fire shelter provides an interior space that maintains a temperature of less than 200 F. in a fire environment that can reach hundreds, or more than a thousand, degrees f for a period sufficient to protect an object or a person until the fire blows by. Also provided is a method of a person in a fire zone calling for the transportation of the portable fire shelter into the fire zone.

A housing has a front panel, a rear panel, side panels, a bottom panel, and an open top. A major chamber is within the housing. An envelope formed with a minor chamber is attached to one of the panels of the housing. A fire shelter system is removably positioned in the major chamber. A global positioning system is removably positioned within the envelope. A cord extending between the major chamber and the minor chamber couples the fire shelter system and the global positioning system. Deployment of the fire shelter system by removal from the major chamber will pull the cord to activate the global positioning system.

A remotely deployable fire protection device for remotely deploying a fire resistant panel between a structure and a fire includes a housing that is fire resistant. Each of opposing ends of a shaft is rotationally coupled to a respective one of opposite ends of the housing. A panel that is flexible and fire resistant has a top edge coupled to the shaft. A base is coupled to a bottom edge of the panel. A lock, operationally coupled to the shaft, is positioned in the housing proximate to a respective one of the opposite ends. An actuator, coupled to the housing proximate to the lock and operationally coupled to the lock, comprises a communicator for remote deployment of the panel. A plurality of mounting brackets is coupled to the housing. A cable with a first terminus coupled to the actuator is available for manual deployment of the panel.

The present invention features systems, methods and devices directed to fire suppression and/or extinguishment using solid carbon dioxide and/or liquid or aqueous hydrogen. Systems and methods of deployment and/or dispersal of carbon dioxide and hydrogen (which would form water at its deployment location) are contemplated. The present invention also contemplates method(s) of fire suppression and/or extinguishment which may include the steps of: carbon dioxide canister deployment, formation of a carbon dioxide curtain and hydrogen deployment and/or dispersal.

The embodiments herein provide a fireproof barrier shield comprising the panels combined together to form a fireproof blanket placed on the building structure to protect the structure from flying embers, radiant heat and fire accidents. The panel comprises an inner heat retardant layer an outer heat reflective layer secured together using a heat resistant adhesive glue or thread. Each panel has several slots for receiving a fastener for combining the panels. The straps comprising a buckle and a belt are provided for securing the fireproof blanket to the ground using screw type anchors or stakes. The buckle is made of heat conductive material and the strap is made of fireproof threads. The perforated channels with brass or aluminum hose fittings are sewn to the inner layer to allow the water flow. The shield comprises a third layer arranged as an outer layer or an inner layer.

A blanket for fighting grass and scrub fires along a fire line includes a sheet of fire resistant material forming a lattice with multiple openings. The openings vary in size from larger openings along the sheet's front edge to smaller openings at the sheet's back edge, and vary in size across the lattice to form parabolic-shaped burn zones that separate a fire burning into the blanket, dissipating its energy. The blanket is a rectangular sheet of woven fire resistant fiberglass strips coated in vermiculite and is flexible for rolling, with connectors securing the woven strips together at points of overlap. The sheet can be placed atop or near grass or scrub at risk of burning, arranged with the front edge toward the fire and the back edge away from the fire. Once the burning risk passes, the sheet or sheets may be removed and rolled up for storage or transport.

Damage mitigating apparatus comprises in one embodiment a damage mitigating aerial vehicle that has sensors for detecting flight related characteristics and a communication unit for commanding activation of parachute deploying apparatus and of a lift generator deactivation unit following determination of a flight failure. In one embodiment, an aerial vehicle transmits a critical failure alarm signal to an unmanned aircraft traffic management system (UTM) following detection of the failure, and the UTM transmits a warning signal to neighboring aerial vehicles that are predicted to be in a vicinity of the descent path of the failed aerial vehicle to avoid collision with the failed aerial vehicle. The damage mitigating apparatus facilitates performance of a damage mitigating operation.

A fire protection device for use in isolating a building structure having several sides from an external fire includes a plurality of folded fire-resistant protective covers and a releasing mechanism. Each protective cover has dimensions large enough to cover one of the several sides of the building structure. The protective covers are composed of knit, woven or nonwoven textiles composed of flame resistant fibers including cotton, polyester, polyamide, viscose, themoset fibers, inorganic fibers and carbon fibers with a fabric areal weight between 20 grams per square meter to 300 grams per square meter. The textiles are impregnated with a fire resistant material which absorbs heat, such as aluminum trihydrate (ATH) or other hydrated metal salts, borates, silicates, phosphates, bromides and chlorides, moisture absorbing polymers such as poly-acrylates and starch derivatives so that the amount of impregnated material is less than 50% of the fabric weight. The releasing mechanism releases each protective cover.

A sodium polyacrylate and distilled water composition for fire and smoke prevention, suppression or extinction, and methods of making and using the same.