Exposures – Anything combustible that an potentially ignite based on the current fire conditions – ie. neighboring strutures, structures on a wildland fire, or even heavy neaby wildland fuels. The exposure may be threatened via conduction, convection, radiation and/or fire embers (a form of conduction).
Pre-Treatment – Using Class A Fluid CAF to coat and protect the exposure to decrease or eliminate the chance of ignition and fire spread. The Fluid CAF holds the water in place to cool, wet and simultaneously provide a white reflective blanktet to protect against radiant heat. The white blanket will also extinguish fire embers as they land on the blanket.
Pre-treatment can and should be applied to any ordinary combustible exposure that is threatened. Water will run off the exposure and require a constatnt application. Fluid CAF will hold to reduce the exposure threat.
Pre-treatment can be applied directly on an exposure as well as on any nearby Ground Cover fuels ahead of a spreading wildland fire.
The clinging foam blanket created by pre-treating fuels with Fluid CAF both cools and wets the fuel, thus removing the fuel as a readily available combustible.
How long does the Fluid CAF last – See “DRAIN TIME“.
If it is threatened, Use CAF to protect it!!
