Recently I read an ad in Fire Apparatus magazine for a collapsable piping system with a nozzle at the end of it that is supplied by a garden hose. I was always told not to introduce water into a chimney fire because it will blow the chimney out. When the flue block gets super heated and brick when water is applied it pops separated like shale in a fireplace. We as fire fighters have to protect property jkust as lives. Now this made be a last resort type measure but it sounds extreme. With blowing out the chimney and not getting the fire out it could very easily spread throughout the wall. A thermal Imaging camera would help in this sense but not all companies have them. A fire in a wall is as we all know a pain in the [email protected]#. Why take that chance? Any and all feed back welcomed.
stay safe!!
stay safe!!
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