Another SOB disaster (fire)

[Terry Neal]

Like the idea of Halon back there Rob. You should have a mostly
enclosed area (airtight) for Halon to be real effective as it removes
most of the O2 from the atmosphere to kill a fire. Do you have any info
on the alarm itself? Heat activated or smoke or both. My DDA would
probably set it off every time I started it if it triggered by smoke!

Terry Neal
Bozeman, MT
82PT40 6V92TA
74FC34 6V53T



Rob Robinson wrote:

> My bird has an engine compartment fire alarm and previous owner put a
> Halon
> extinguisher on board. I added, two ten pound Kidde foam and dry chem. I
> think a fitted Halon system in the engine compartment would be the answer.
>
> On 14/07/07, Terry Neal > > wrote:
> >
> > Gee Don,
> >
> > Those folks are real lucky to be alive. I saw a similar fire a couple
> > of weeks ago on I90. Was going home to Bozeman in the evening & a
> > church group bus (I think it was an MCI 9) caught fire in the rear
> > engine compartment. Everyone got out ok but the bus basically just
> > melted into the pavement on the Interstate. Fire dept. trucks tried to
> > put it out with foam but it was too far gone by the time they got there.
> >
> > Makes a person want to think about some sort of heat alarm system for
> > the back end? Possibly along with a Halon type extinguisher system?
> > Maybe include a camera in that compartment too? By the time you get one
> > of these stopped, it's probably going to be too late to do much with the
> > small extinguishers most of us carry anyway.
> >
> > Thanks for sharing this with the group.
> >
> > Terry Neal
> > Bozeman, MT
> > 82PT40 6V92TA
> > 74FC34 6V53T
> >
> > Don Bradner wrote:
> >
> > > One of the Motosat dealers who is a long-time member of my
> > > (DatastormUsers.com) forums lost a 42-foot Safari Panther to fire
> > > yesterday. We haven't heard from him yet, but this is a link to the
> > > story: http://www.katu.com/news/local/8496952.html
> <http://www.katu.com/news/local/8496952.html>
> > > <http://www.katu.com/news/local/8496952.html
> <http://www.katu.com/news/local/8496952.html>>
> > >
> > > Don Bradner
> > > 90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
> > > Eureka, CA
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
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> Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson
> 94 WLWB
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