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Originally Posted by fireman328
Major tyre fires are very difficult to control as the water from fire-fighting jets just runs off. The only way to effect control is to use great volumes of water from diffuser and spray branches to allow the water to evaporate on the tyres, taking the heat out of the burning rubber until the combination of water vapourising to steam and a lack of further fuel causes extinguishment.
It is also imperative to get the fire surounded and drive it back to the area which has already been burned by using even more water to help extinguishment by lack of fuel.
Apart from that it's easy !
When I was In Oldham we had a rubber fire which was stiil being attended for 2 weeks after ignition.
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In your experience and from what you have seen and read do you think this was arson?
The Police figured it started at 0915hrs and I took the pics at about 1000hrs and it was one mighty blaze!!!