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Fire Triangle
Instructional aid in which the sides of a triangle are used to represent the three factors (oxygen, heat, fuel) necessary for combustion and flame production; removal of any of the three factors causes flame production to cease.

Firefighting Resources
All people and major items of equipment that can, or potentially can, be assigned to fires.

Foam
Water in which a surfactant has been added at the pump. Foam insulates fuels against heat, increases the penetration of water into fuels and decreases evaporation.

Burned stove.
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