COBRA™ - Safer Fire Fighting

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...with a CCS COBRA Cutting Extinguisher

The Swedish Rescue Services Agency has since 1996 been conducting extensive fire fighting tests with a tool now called CCS COBRA - The Cutting Extinguisher. This tool has been mounted on various types of fire vehicles as Arial Platforms and Rescue Fire Pumpers. Now CCS has designed the COBRA to fit in any type of pick-up or van.

Experienced firemen in close co-operation with Swedish Rescue Services Agency have designed a concept of a small Fire Rescue Vehicle. CCS COBRA Cutting Extinguisher is the main tool around which the concept is built.

The CCS COBRA evolved out of technology developed by DIAJET, UK in the 80¹Th to safely ¹cold cut¹ into charged pipelines and storage tanks for the petroleum. CCS has employed the method in the petro-chemical industry since 1988. The product is covered by several national and international patents world wide (ref PCT/SE98/01227).

Fire Rescue Vehicle
The vehicle is equipped with a hydraulic system, which powers the patented 300 bar high-pressure water pump and the COBRA equipment but also the hydraulic power tools.

There are 300 litre (70 gallons) water tanks, an abrasive cylinder and a foam container as well as 80 m (250 feet) of high-pressure water hose to complete the COBRA fire fighting system.

Additional equipment includes; medical kit, navigation and communication system, alarm and alert systems, personal protective gear etc.

Fire Fighting with the CCS COBRA
The water jetting technique for cutting is producing a spray and fog, which has an enormous cooling and extinguishing effect.

Once inside the opening in the building (or inside any other construction, which is on fire) the water sprays the environment with a fine mist, which expands -1.640 times!- when transforming into vapour and thus displacing oxygen.

The mist and vapour has the secondary beneficial effect of cooling the environment and aiding in extinguishing the fire.

There are several studies published from full-scale tests carried out by university of Lund Department of Fire Research covering the features of CCS COBRA as a fire extinguisher.