Starting fire

Fire Elazards - Flash Point Not pertinent Flammable Limits in Air (%) Not pertinent Fire Extinguishing Agents Flood with water from a protected area Fire Extinguishing Agents Not To Be Used A small amount of water may cause an explosion Special Hazards of Combustion Products No data Behavior in Fire Increases intensity of fire and can start fires when in contact with organic materials Ignition Temperature Not pertinent Electrical Hazard Not pertinent Burning Rate Not pertinent. 

Many catalysts are sold as water-wet and are useful when water can be tolerated. These wetted catalysts are much less apt to start fires. Catalysts can be wetted with safety with methylcellosolve (2 ethoxyethanol) before adding them to volatile solvents 40). 

This incendiary is very good for use against all kinds of wooden structures, including heavy beams and timbers. It also works well on paper, rags, straw, excelsior, and other tinder type materials. It will start fires in open containers of flammable liquids, piles of coal, coke, or lumber, and on baled rags and paper. It is not effective against metal. 

Figure 10.21 Rise time of starting fire plumes (from Tanaka, Fujita and Yamaguchi [31])...

Start fire water and foam solution (if applicable) pumps. 

Fire Prevention—Activities whose purpose is to prevent fires from starting. Fire protection and fire prevention go hand-in-hand. All fire protection programs include a fire prevention program. For example, control of ignition sources is very important in minimizing the risk of fire, but does not meet the definition of fire protection in this Guideline. 

Temperatures sufficient to start fires or ignite explosive materials may come from a number of sources including ... 

The basic methods of starting fire water pumps are automatic, remote manual, and local. All pumps should be arranged for local manual shutdown only at the pump. 

NY (1948) 15) F.I. Ordway R.C. Wakefield, International Missile Spacecraft Guide, McGraw-Hill, NY (1960) 16) Anon, Military Pyrotechnic Series, Part I, Theory Application, AMCP 706-185 (1967), Chapter 5, Production of Heat 17) H. Ellern, Military Civilian Pyrotechnics, Chem Publg Co, NY (1968), Chapter 25, Fire Starting Fire Setting... 

Incendiary Grenades contain an incendiary mixt for starting fires... 

An incendiary material may be defined as a material that is readily capable of starting fires and can be used in a flame thrower, bomb, shell or warhead. It may also be defined as a material that burns with a hot flame for a long duration. Its purpose is to set fire wooden structures and other combustible targets. There are some incendiaries such as thermite which can be used for melting, cutting or welding metals. 

Under the term of "chemical agents are also understood items used for starting fires in enemy installations, houses, ships, or vehicles(see under INCENDIARY WARFARE) as well as substances producing smokes serving for screening movements of troops, ships, trains, or vehicles(See under SMOKES IN WARFARE)... 

Chemical Fire Starters Devices intended for starting fires under adverse climatic conditions, such as in wet jungles or on snow -covered terrain. The Ml fire starter is a cylindrical NC container 1.25 in diam by 3.25 in length filled with 0.8oz of kerosene thickened to a gel and provided with an ignition device, consisting of a match-head attached to a disk which covers the filling. A scratcher is attached inside a metal cap which covers the match head of the fire starter. The cap is fastened to the container with adhesive tape(Ref, pp 51-4 ... 

Fig 30). A smaller fire starter, M2, is designed to be carried in a pocket of the Air Force survial kit for use by downed AF cfew in starting fires under adverse climatic conditions. This device is a rectangular NC container, 0.5 x0.5 x3 contg 0.2oz of thickened kerosene and provided with an igniter which consists of a match-head mixture with a pull-type scratcher wire(Ref,... 

The prepared maple sawdust is made by cooking with miner s wax, 10 pounds of sawdust to 1 ounce of wax, in a steam-jacketed kettle. The mixture is tamped dry into a paper tube, 7/ inch in external diameter, 1/32 inch wall, and burns at the rate of about 1 inch per minute. The fusee is supplied at its base with a pointed piece of wood or iron for setting it up in the ground, and it burns best when set at an angle of about 45°. In order to insure certain ignition, the top of the charge is covered with a primer or starting fire, loaded while moistened with... 

For use in trench warfare, for the purpose of obscuring the situation from the sight of the enemy, a very satisfactory dense white or gray smoke is procured by burning a mixture of zinc dust and hexachloroethane. The mixture requires a strong starting fire. The smoke consists largely of finely divided zinc chlo-... 

Additional reasons to manage weeds in ornamental plants and conifer trees include fire protection, frost protection, rodent and disease mitigation, nutrient management, and aesthetics. Uncontrolled weeds and brush become serious fire hazards in the fall or early spring when herbaceous weeds are dry. Plantations of conifers have been lost because weeds were not controlled and fires started. Fires are less destructive when herbaceous vegetation is controlled. 

The best known of these defoliants are sodium chlorate which has the danger of starting fires, tributyl-phosphorotrithioite (merphos, Folex) its oxygenated relative tributylphosphorotri-thioite (DEF), and endothall (Accelerate). Recent research reports claim that amino methyl phosphonic acid and certain of its relatives were found to be more active than current commercial products. The best known desiccant used for defoliation of cotton is paraquat (1,1 -dimethyl-4,4 -bipyridinium) (8). 

These eco-saboteurs, as they are sometimes referred to, are suspected of at least six incidents since September 2001 (1) a firebombing at a federal corral for wild horses in northeastern California (2) a fire at a primate research center in New Mexico (3) release of more than 1000 mink from a farm in Iowa (4) release of pigeons raised for research in Iowa (5) fires at an Oregon tree farm and a laboratory at the University of Washington and (6) a fire that destroyed a McDonald s restaurant in Tucson, Arizona. In recent years, the groups have also claimed responsibility for starting fires at a Vail, Colorado ski resort, which they say impacted a lynx habitat. 

Designates a highly exothermic composition or material that is primarily used to start fires. 

Colored stars, from their fierceness, have a tendency to burn in the cases. This defect may be remedied by putting upon each star a small coopful of starting fire. No. 1, before putting in the interval fuse as much as will fill round the sides of the star. This composition is somewhat fiercer than would suit for the regular fuse so catches the blowing powder sooner. 

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