An automated and remotely-controllable wildfire ember misting-type suppression system and method that employs an electronic wildfire ember detection device using infra-red (IR) and other thermal-imaging sensors, and relative humidity sensors, to automatically detect the presence of a wildfire in the vicinity of the wood-framed building and automatically generate a cloud of wildfire ember suppressing mist consisting of microscopic droplets of clean anti-fire (AF) liquid that (i) instantly evaporates into vapor when contacting a flying wildfire ember and (ii) breaks and/or interferes with free-radical chemical reactions supported on the surface of each combusting wildfire ember flying in the wildfire storm moving about the wood-framed building.

Implementations are disclosed herein that relate to a firefighting system. An example provides a firefighting system comprising a conveyance configured to receive and elevate screened soil, a chute configured to receive the screened soil at an entry point, and a nozzle configured to emit the screened soil toward a fire site, the nozzle comprising an augmentation device configured to increase a flow speed of the screened soil.

The current disclosure describes car parking garages, water mist fire protection systems for car parking garages, methods and water mist sprinklers therefor, the car parking garage system (10) comprising a floor deck (50) and a ceiling deck (51) spaced about a longitudinal axis (A) extending parallel to the ceiling deck (51), defining an effective height range (H1) between the floor deck (50) and the ceiling (51) deck in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (A); and a fire protection system including a supply pipe system (30) having a parallel portion (31) disposed parallel to the longitudinal axis (A); and at least one water mist sprinkler (100) coupled to the parallel portion (31) of the supply pipe system (30), the at least one water mist sprinkler (100) including a frame body (110) having an inlet (111) for receipt of an extinguishing fluid from the supply pipe system (30), an outlet (113) with a passageway (112) extending between the inlet (111) and the outlet (113) to define a discharge coefficient of a nominal metric K-factor of below 32, a seal assembly (114) and a heat-responsive trigger (115) to support the seal assembly (114) in the outlet (113); and a deflector (120) coupled to the frame body (110) and spaced from the outlet (113) for distribution of the extinguishing fluid; wherein the effective height range (H1) is up to 4 meters.

A portable wildfire control assembly includes a trailer that is towable behind a tow vehicle. A tower is mounted to the trailer and the tower is comprised of a plurality of sections that slidably engage each other such that the tower is positionable between a collapsed position or an elongated position. An actuator is mounted to the tower and the actuator urges the tower into the elongated position or the collapsed position. A sprinkler head is mounted to the tower and the sprinkler head is fluidly attachable to a fluid source thereby facilitating the sprinkler head to spray the fluid in a strategic location. In this way the sprinkler head can inhibit a wildfire from spreading into the strategic location.

The presently disclosed invention relates to emergency housing units and methods of providing emergency shelter, where the emergency housing units comprising a shipping container, a front wall disposed at the front side having a door, a canopy pivotally connected to one of the shipping container and the front wall at a location adjacent to both a top portion of the shipping container and the front wall, the canopy able to pivot from a closed retracted position to an open extended position, and a canopy latch attached to the first gate and the second gate, the canopy latch engaging with the canopy and releasably lockably fixing the canopy and both gates in a fixed position relative to one another and preventing the gates from moving into a closed position.

A fluid projecting platform comprising: a vehicle; a primary fluid projectile vessel configured to store a primary fluid projectile; a secondar fluid projectile vessel configured to store a secondary fluid; a tertiary fluid projectile vessel configured to store a tertiary fluid projectile; a first nozzle; a second nozzle; a first pump fluidically transmitting the primary fluid projectile to the first nozzle; a second pump fluidically transmitting the secondary fluid projectile to the first nozzle; a third pump fluidically transmitting the tertiary fluid projectile to the second nozzle; an air compressor providing compressed air to the second nozzle; a jet engine emitting a jet-stream of a gas in a direction non-coincident with an output of the first nozzle; a gimbal arm having a first end coupled to the vehicle, and having a second end couple to the jet engine.

A wildfire defense spraying system installed on a property with combustible surfaces and adapted for spraying the property and combustible surfaces with an environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor for defending against wildfire by inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread caused by hot flying wildfire embers created during a wildfire storm. The wildfire defense system includes: a storage tank containing an environmentally-clean liquid fire inhibitor comprising a majority amount of tripotassium citrate (TPC) and minor amount of triethyl citrate (TEC) dissolved in a major amount of water according to a prespecified formulation, wherein the environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor remains stable without the formation of solids at expected operating temperatures, and ready for immediate spraying on combustible surfaces. A hydraulic pump system is connected to remote power control switch employed to supply electrical power to the hydraulic pump, and remotely activated. A plurality of spray heads is mounted about the property, in fluid communication with the storage tank, and supplied with environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor by the hydraulic pump system. During operation, the spray heads spray liquid fire inhibitor from the storage tank forming a spray pattern that covers the property and combustible surfaces to be defended against wildfire embers. When the hydraulic pump system completes pumping and spraying the environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor in the storage tank, the hydraulic pump system automatically shuts off, and as water molecules in the sprayed environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor evaporate to the environment, thin potassium salt crystalline coatings form on the sprayed combustible property surfaces, inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wildfire.

A remotely-triggered wildfire defense spraying system installed on property with a building, and adapted for spraying the building and property with an environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor for defending against wildfire by inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread caused by hot flying wildfire embers created during a wildfire storm. The wildfire defense spraying system includes: a storage tank containing environmentally-clean liquid fire inhibitor comprising an alkali metal salt of a nonpolymeric carboxylic acid, and triethyl citrate (TEC) dissolved in water according to a prespecified formulation, wherein the environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor remains stable without the formation of solids at expected operating temperatures, and for immediate spraying on property. A fluid pumping loop having a hydraulic pump system is connected to spray heads and the storage tank, and is operably controlled by a remote control switch. When the hydraulic pump system is remotely activated by a remotely generated trigger signal (e.g. from a mobile smartphone or remote wildfire detection system), the hydraulic pump system pumps environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor from the storage tank and through the spray heads to produce a spray pattern of environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor covering the combustible surfaces on the property. As water molecules in the sprayed environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor evaporate to the environment, fire-inhibiting alkali metal salt crystalline coatings form on the sprayed combustible surfaces, inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wildfire embers.

A wildfire defense spraying process for spraying and protecting property and combustible surfaces with an environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor that inhibits fire ignition and flame spread caused by hot flying wildfire embers created during a wildfire storm. The wildfire defense spraying process involves maintaining a storage tank containing a supply of environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor comprising a major amount of tripotassium citrate (TPC) and minor amount of triethyl citrate (TEC) dissolved in a major amount of water according to a prespecified formulation, wherein the environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor remains stable without the formation of solids at expected operating temperatures, and ready for immediate spraying on combustible property. When a spraying-trigger signal is received by an automated wildfire detection system, a mobile phone or other intelligent source, an electric-powered hydraulic pump system is automatically energized and pumps environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor from the storage tank through piping, under pressure, to spray heads mounted about the property, to produce a spray pattern of environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor that covers all the property and combustible surfaces to be defended against wildfire. When the hydraulic pump system completes its pumping operations, the hydraulic pump system automatically shuts off. As water molecules in the sprayed environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor evaporates to the environment, thin fire-inhibiting potassium salt crystalline coatings form on the sprayed combustible surfaces, inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wildfire embers.

A wildfire defense spraying system installed on property with combustible property surfaces, and adapted for spraying the combustible property surfaces with an environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor for defending against wildfire by inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread caused by hot flying wildfire embers created during a wildfire storm. The wildfire defense spraying system includes: a storage tank containing a supply of environmentally-clean liquid fire inhibitor comprising an alkali metal salt of a nonpolymeric carboxylic acid, and triethyl citrate (TEC) dissolved in water according to a prespecified formulation, wherein the environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor remains stable without the formation of solids at expected operating temperatures, and ready for immediate spraying on combustible surfaces. An electric-powered hydraulic pump system is connected to a remote power control switch employed to supply electrical power to the electric-powered hydraulic pump system. A plurality of spray heads are mounted about the property and any buildings thereon, and arranged in fluid communication with the storage tank and the hydraulic pump system. During operation, the hydraulic pump system automatically pumps environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor from the storage tank and through the spray heads to generate a spray pattern of environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor over all the combustible surfaces on the property. As water molecules in the sprayed environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor evaporate to the environment, thin fire-inhibiting alkali metal salt crystalline coatings form on the combustible property surfaces, inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wildfire embers.