Fire extinguishing system to eliminate smoldering/smoking of decomposed dried, former marshland, now peat, surrounded by water

摘要

A firefighting method and apparatus are described for suppressing fires in remote dried out former wetlands/marsh areas. A water pump is positioned upon a floating platform maneuverable in adjacent shallow marsh waters that are not navigable by conventional watercraft. Said pump has an intake port for drawing water from nearby marsh waters and ponds through a hose, said hose having a filtering screen for preventing the pickup of solid materials. The pump has a discharge hose connected to the outflow connection, said discharge hose connected on the distal end to a piping extension projecting away from the hull and over the nearby burning peat lands. Said pump is operated to discharge water over and into the adjacent burning marsh as the platform is maneuvered within the surrounding marsh canals and waterways.

主权项

1. A floating vessel for fighting and extinguishing fires, said vessel maneuverable in shallow marsh and shoreline waters that are difficult to access by land or sea, consisting of;
a buoyant hull with a lift davit mounted thereon; said hull containing a low pressure, high volume water pump with intake and discharge ports thereon; an intake hose connected to a suction port of the water pump, said intake hose having a distal end with an opening submerged below the water level in which the hull is floating; a water cannon connected to a outflow connection of the water pump, a discharge hose connected to the outflow connection of the water pump, said discharge hose connected on the distal end to a piping extension projecting away from the hull; said piping extension lying above the marsh shoreline surface and carrying a stream of water to a location of the fire to be extinguished.