Fire suppression foam goes off on air force base

[Frank]

I wonder how expensive this would be to deal with. Does it just dissipate or what happens? Is there something special about the foam or is it just regular soap bubbles?

http://thechive.com/2012/05/16/fire-extinguishing-system-goes-off-at-air-force-base-now-its-a-party-6-photos/

[Darren M]

Wow. Hopefully there weren't any F35's in there.... like that program needs more bad things to happen to it.

[90MarkVII]

I wonder how expensive this would be to deal with. Does it just dissipate or what happens? Is there something special about the foam or is it just regular soap bubbles?

http://thechive.com/2012/05/16/fire-...arty-6-photos/

AFFF...Aqueous Film Forming Foam.
It is much more than just bubbles. It is designed to form a layer of film between the product and air, suppressing fire.
It is slightly caustic, and if the cockpit of any of those aircraft was open, just about everything in there was ruined.

I saw the same thing at Reese AFB (Lubbock) back in the mid 80's. Some knucklehead forgot to turn off the system for some welding. The sensors are IR as well as UV and Rate of Rise (temperature).

[pr1042]

We had the halon system go off in the data center at my last job, that sucked to go in afterwards

I'd imagine the foam is much worse cost wise, our small area was somewhere between 15-20k iirc

[AdRock]

They could make back some of the money they lost by calling a few thousand ecstacy taking rave nuts. Glow sticks, techno, and the biggest foam pit ever. LOL.