MickinOz wrote:And yet, when I qualified in shipboard firefighting, it was all about putting out oil, grease and gasoline fires with a water hose.
To pass, I had to put out a gasoline and diesel fire with a water hose.
There was a kid's playground slide with a 6 gallon drum of gasoline at the top, and a tray of diesel at the bottom.
They opened the tap on the gas drum, and when the stream of gas got to the bottom, they lit it. After a while it got hot enough to ignite the diesel. (No easy thing, setting fire to diesel.)
When all was ablaze, I had to go in with a water hose, suppress the flames enough to get to the drum of gas and turn off the tap, and then put out the burning diesel tray.
With a garden hose, basically.
Can be done.
From some of the posts here, I get the impression that fire blankets are a new idea to some people?
In that situation its all about volume of water or a water mist cooling it off enough to not stay ignited.