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Oil depot catches fire in occupied Makiivka
Oil depot catches fire in the temporarily Russian-occupied city of Makiivka, Donetsk region. The occupation administration calls the cause of the fire “the ingress of an explosive object.” It was tanks with fuel that caught fire. As the emergency service of the invaders reports, on Monday night, November 21, burning […]

Oil depot catches fire in occupied Makiivka




















Improve the success rate
Method for comparison of different fire extinguishing technologies – Part 3. How can we improve the success rate of the Storage Tank fire fighting? We have good news for the Fire Experts: we have the opportunity for positive influence on the measured efficiency by changing the parameters of the tank fire […]

Part 3. How can we improve the success rate of ...



Nu - the Foam Application Efficiency factor
Method for comparison of different fire extinguishing technologies – Part 2. Introducing the Foam Application Efficiency: proposal for the industry for comparison method of fire fighting technologies for Storage Tank Fires. The R&d Department of FoamFatale International Inc. suggests to use the      FOAM APPLICATION EFFICIENCY (η) as the numerical […]

Part 2. Foam Application Efficiency








Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – part 5/8. Tank fire protection development: the main research task is to eliminate the drawbacks. Research covered three key areas: elaboration of a strategy improving the success ratio of fire fighting determination of new technical parameters for extinguishing development of […]

Tank fire protection development: the latest direction. Part 5/8.






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Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – part 2/8. Impact on the environment can no longer be ignored when using technological equipment in the chemical and oil industry. Guidelines are provided and obligations are laid down by law with regard to the permissible extent of environmental impacts; soil, […]

Need to introduce environmental awareness in fire fighting. Part 2/8.


The laws intended to safeguard our environment prescribe only indirectly that those provisions related to the use of the environment should be respected also during disaster recovery.   ISO 14001 sets out the criteria for an environmental management system. It does not state requirements for environmental performance, but maps out […]

Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – ...



A boilover type of fire refers to an extremely hazardous situation where an attempt is made to extinguish semi-enclosed oil or petrochemical fueled fire with water. The hazard results due to the difference in density between oil and water.   Boilover is also common in the home as a chip […]

Boilover