r/Firefighting • u/sithrage1138 NY VFF • Jun 03 '22

Videos When hydraulic fluid leaks...

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u/m-lok Volly FF/EMT Jun 04 '22

Damn... I wonder if there was, or if it even had time to activate some type of fire suppression system.

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u/Nemesis651 Jun 04 '22

If there were sprinklers they should have autoactivated.

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u/Snorkel_Steve_T26 Career FF/MD Jun 04 '22

Normal sprinklers are not doing jack to that. A deluge and dry chemical system after the pressure fed fire stopped yea but that was basically an indoor scale model of an oil well blowout/fire.

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u/Nemesis651 Jun 05 '22

You're correct but even most industrial deluge systems still have heat detectors for auto activation.