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From: scott@swindle.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: using AFMs to exginguish oil fires
Keywords: AFM, Kuwait, wildfires
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Date: 13 Mar 91 00:42:08 GMT
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From: scott@swindle.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu (Gary Coffman) writes:
|> The problem with blowing out oil well fires is that the fire has heated
|> up the metallic junk surrounding the wellhead to incandesance. The fire
|> will immediately relight as soon as air whooshes back in following the
|> snuffing explosion. You must first remove as much of the junk as possible
|> and cool the rest with lots of water. Then you can blow out the candle.

Also, I imagine it would be difficult preventing the FAE cloud from being
  prematurely ignited from the already existing hydrocarbon fire!

Suppose you could have about 4 C130's drop several FAE`s at four equidistant
  points surrounding the fire, but that seems like too much trouble to me.


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