FIT-5 Fire Interruption Technology
Knock Down Fire Fast
The FIT-5 is the most powerful handheld fire knockdown tool available in the world today. FIT-5 handheld knockdown tools are safe, non-toxic and very easy to use. No wonder fire fighters are already describing this new fire suppression technology as an important tool in their toolbox.
FIT stands for Fire Interruption Technology and the name describes exactly how the FIT works. Fire needs fuel, oxygen and heat to sustain a chemical reaction. In seconds, ARA Safety's Fire Interruption Technology removes the fuel from the equation at the molecular level, interrupting the fire triangle, and knocking down flame and heat.
The FIT-5 can be effectively deployed in a wide variety of structure fire scenarios, from incipient to fully involved and in defensive, offensive and transitional modes.
Put Time on Your Side
In many fire response situations, first responders find themselves on site but unable to attack the fire. Water may be unavailable, the duty commander may be on site before volunteer crews and trucks, or an EMS call may have responders delayed leaving the crew short for the two-and-two rule.
Depending on the progress of the fire, deploying a FIT-5 can buy crews fifteen minutes or more. In the life cycle of a fire, as little as five minutes can make the difference between having a home to save and losing the home completely.
Make an Interior Attack Safer
Properly deployed, the FIT-5 interrupts flame and lowers temperature rapidly, making an interior attack safer. In a recent deployment in West Milford, crews were preparing for a dangerous attack on a basement fire when the FIT-5 was deployed. Crews entering the basement minutes later found this fully involved fire had been completely knocked down.
Help the Environment
Deploying a FIT-5 early at any stage in the life of a fire doesn't only help preserve the contents of the house and make fighting fire safer, it also helps the environment. Fast extinguishment with little or no water means less water used, less polluted runoff and less carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases entering the air.