A 40,000 square-foot aircraft hangar in Portsmouth was filled with fire extinguishing foam Tuesday to test the emergency fire extinguishing system, officials said.PlaneSense, Inc., an aircraft ...

A recently introduced foam system for extinguishing rim seal fires in floating-roof oil storage tanks demonstrated levels of fire control and extinguishment and burnback resistance the same as or ...

Since 1877, when foam was first introduced as a fire suppression agent, it has been part of the firefighters’ arsenal. Over 100 years later, in the 1980s, foam was popularized as an effective wildland ...