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Comment by Engineco913 on June 1, 2008 at 12:44pm

With the company coming into town, it is time to start meeting the company management immediately. Being that you are a small department with limited funds, it would be the responsible thing for the ethanol company to supply your department with the training and materials needed for a ethanol fire. They don't want to lose their investment because you don't have even close to the required amount of foam. Another thing you should consider is to get some extensive haz mat training going and to try to gather support from the state to make a team. You WILL need it.
Be well, stay safe

Comment by lutan1 on May 29, 2008 at 5:20am

Check out Industrial Fire World.
http://www.fireworld.com/

Articles of interest include-

Extinguishing Ethanol
http://www.fireworld.com/ifw_articles/e95_08_07.php

Ethanl Fire Tests Planned
http://www.fireworld.com/ifw_articles/ethanol_fire_tests.php

The Trouble With Ethanol
http://www.fireworld.com/ifw_articles/ethanol_07.php


Also check out Wiki- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol

AFFF will not cut it- you WILL need a foam with an Alcahol resistant polymer....