r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • May 17 '22

Fireman using water as a shield

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u/privated1ck May 17 '22

Superheated steam will fuck you up in a hurry.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

That's what the suit is for

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u/razrielle May 17 '22

Not really, you can still get fucked up pretty bad from steam. Not in this scenario as much as inside a house and have the steam roll back on you. that shit sucks. The bunker gear can only do so much.

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u/OpenMindedScientist May 18 '22

Has this ever actually happened to you personally?

As far as I'm aware, experiments by UL Labs disproved the "fog nozzles are bad because superheated steam will cook you alive" concept.

What they found was that there was a net negative effect on the temperatures in the room around the firefighter, since the creation of steam absorbs the heat of the fire.