California Fire Research and Development, Inc.
California Fire Research and Development, Inc.’s mission is to promote new ideas, and technologies that can help shorten the duration of the Catastrophic and Devastating Wildfires we have seen in recent years.
Wet Bulldozers
Currently we want to get the Fire Agencies to prefer the use of Wet Bulldozers over the current use of dry ones. Presently the usual fire fighting plan is to put fire lines around a fire with a typical Bulldozer hired from contractors. We believe Wet Bulldozers that have Fire Apparatus on them can help shorten Fire duration by speeding up the mop up process by bringing water and fire hoses onto the fire line as soon as the containment lines are established. On a lot of fires fire Trucks cannot access some areas on fires sometimes due to terrain and trees. Thus the need for Dozers with water should be an overwhelming choice.
Research & Development
Additionally we will work on new ideas and develop equipment to help put fires out sooner by the use of equipment currently not in use by the Fire Agencies and adapting it to work when Airplanes and Helicopters cannot fly. On most fires Aircraft don’t fly at night, in heavy smoke, or in very windy conditions.
This is time lost fighting fires and we think the use of modified equipment can fill this void which can help shorten Fire times.
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