8/26/25 Brooklyn Car Fire w/ Foam Ops Box 790

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Location: 144 Stuyvesant Avenue between Greene Avenue and Van Buren Street (Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn)

Car Fire with ruptured gas tank

Unfortunately it seems like the PD dispatcher failed to notify the fire department. The officers on scene put it over 4 times - that’s the way I heard about the job in the first place. Once the fire department was notified via 911 call they were on scene in about a minute.

[0211] BD: 5-7 Signal Brooklyn Box 790, Stuyvesant Avenue at Greene Avenue, for a car fire

[0211] BD: Brooklyn Box after initial 790, 144 Stuyvesant Avenue between Greene Avenue and Van Buren Street, for a car fire extending to the building

[0213] BD: Brooklyn to Engine 217, originally came in as a car fire, now we’re receiving a car fire extending to the building, your box has been transmitted

Rundown:
E-217,214,222
L-111,102
B-37

 
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Why are they dumping the foam concentrate from the foam buckets into a 5 gallon pail. Just stick the foam eductor pick up tube into the foam bucket. Also foam has an extremely difficult time extinguishing fuels under pressure or falling from a height. These are called 3D fires. The problem here is that gasoline has a flashpoint of -45F. So hot metal under car keeps igniting the fuel and vapors and foam only extinguishes pool fires, not vertical moving fires. So the answer here is to build a poor man’s hydrochem system. Hydrochem is used in Aircraft and industrial firefighting to extinguish 3D fires. When the nozzleman took a knee to direct the foam stream under the vehicle, all they had to do is insert the tip of a dry chemical extinguisher into the foam stream and release the dry chem into the foam stream. The dry chem will extinguish the fire and the nozzle should be kept flowing for another couple of minutes to cool the hot metal down….. and Done! Btw the TFT foam eductor they are using is the best on the market. Thanks for posting the video.
 
Capttomo said:
Why are they dumping the foam concentrate from the foam buckets into a 5 gallon pail. Just stick the foam eductor pick up tube into the foam bucket. Also foam has an extremely difficult time extinguishing fuels under pressure or falling from a height. These are called 3D fires. The problem here is that gasoline has a flashpoint of -45F. So hot metal under car keeps igniting the fuel and vapors and foam only extinguishes pool fires, not vertical moving fires. So the answer here is to build a poor man’s hydrochem system. Hydrochem is used in Aircraft and industrial firefighting to extinguish 3D fires. When the nozzleman took a knee to direct the foam stream under the vehicle, all they had to do is insert the tip of a dry chemical extinguisher into the foam stream and release the dry chem into the foam stream. The dry chem will extinguish the fire and the nozzle should be kept flowing for another couple of minutes to cool the hot metal down….. and Done! Btw the TFT foam eductor they are using is the best on the market. Thanks for posting the video.
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Ive seen videos before of chafeurs doing similar things on fores. Not sure how many 5 gallon pails or conatiners of foam FDNY engs carry but what they may have done was take the remaing foam from a used bucket or 2 and dump it into a fresh bucket to use it up. The foam pails we carried as spares were 5 gallon buckets with removable lids so we had a nice big opening to transfer concentrate from bucket to bucket or into the onboard tank. There's usually an inch or 2 of foam left before the educators start sucking air.
 
I’ve done it before, collecting all the dregs in a bucket. I’ve also worked in a department that had a tanker with foam in a separate tank, ideal for departments that don’t do foam ops that much, you had to decant the foam into another flexible tank thing set up next to the tanker, it worked but theres obviously better ways to do it now! Good work by the brothers in my opinion
 
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