Same problem with water, some Fires can't be put out with Water either it's kinda the same Problem with WindI know that's the way they described it, and that's the issue I'm having. Think back to any wildfire you've seen, whether on the news or in real life. When have you ever heard "Thank goodness the wind is so strong, that will surely put out the fire." You've never heard that, because actual fires are given mobility by wind, not put out by it. Putting out a spreading wildfire is a constant battle against the power of the wind more than anything.



Water doesn't cause fire to spread in any way. Fire dies when it's not exposed to oxygen (wind), which is what water does, it smothers it so it can't use the oxygen in the air (wind) as one of it's chemical reagents. Though the same thing can be said of earth, that would also smother fire. But you don't see firefighters spraying sand on housefires. You also don't see them using compressed air.


Perhaps not, but firefighters sometimes use explosives to put out certain types of fires (i.e. certain chemical fires that would react to water/foam), the shockwave literally removes all the immediate oxygen in the area, (sometimes the fuel as well.) snuffing out the flames.Water doesn't cause fire to spread in any way. Fire dies when it's not exposed to oxygen (wind), which is what water does, it smothers it so it can't use the oxygen in the air (wind) as one of it's chemical reagents. Though the same thing can be said of earth, that would also smother fire. But you don't see firefighters spraying sand on housefires. You also don't see them using compressed air.
or to simplify: wind kills fire.
Edit: I forgot to mention this but you don't necessarily need plain oxygen to keep a fire going, the correct term is oxidizing agent. (for example, many chlorates are even more reactive than oxygen and will often ignite on contact with anything combustible, and could be the kind of chemical fire that can't be extingushed by conventional means.)
Last edited by Vanguard319; 04-25-2012 at 01:09 PM.


But mainly, those are electrical fires, and that sort of technological division of fires is not included in the wheel. Among men that inhabit nature, it's been ancestral, atavistic knowledge that the remedy to fire is water.
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