Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

This note describes an investigation of the performance of approved fire-fighting foams on fires in various aviation and motor fuels. It shows that fires in aviation kerosine (AVTUR) are more readily controlled than fires in other aviation and motor fuels, and that motor fuel fires are generally more difficult to control than fires in aviation fuels. The rate of breakdown of the foam blanket on most of the fuels used was not found to be unduly rapid.