FIRETRAINER^® simulators offer live fire training advantages.

Minimal Environmental Impact

Is “Suburban Sprawl” encroaching on your fire training facility?  
+  Gas-fueled simulators allow live burn training, despite being in populated areas.
+  Simulators are fueled by clean-burning propane, natural gas or butane.
+  Kidde simulators can successfully operate just a few hundred meters from residential homes.
+  Gas-fueled fire simulators alleviate concerns of air, soil and water pollution. 
+  The fuel does not contaminate firefighting run-off water. 
+  Simulated smoke dissipates rapidly once beyond the burn building.

Hot stuff…
FIRETRAINER^® systems produce burn temperatures similar to class-A burn rooms

+  1100°F (590°C) convective heat at the ceiling
+  500°F (260°C) convective heat at 5 feet (1.5 m) off the floor
+  Radiant heat is identical to class-A fires and is capable of scorching gear if exposed too long.

  Actual thermal image of Kidde Structural FIRETRAINER^®.  VIDEO
                  RED = greater than 900°F  (480°C)
               ORANGE = greater than 700°F  (370°C)

High Student Throughput

+  Run 8 burn evolutions or more in one hour… versus just two or three with class-A fuels.
+  Many more students can be trained in far less time. 
+  With more evolutions, each student can experience the lead position on a hoseline team.
+  Gas-fueled fires relight at the touch of a button. 
+  Class-A fires, as you know, are difficult to relight once fully extinguished.

Minimal Setup & Cleanup

+  No wood or pallets to haul into the burn room (especially difficult on the upper floors of a burn
    building). 
+  No messy ashes and dangerous nails (from wood pallets) to shovel.
+  As one user says:  “Walk in, turn it on, train, turn it off, and go home.”

Consistent, Recordable Training Results

+  Document time and day, training conditions, and performance results for each trainee.
+  Fire scenarios are programmable and storable. 
+  Every class and every trainee can experience an equally challenging fire training scenario.
+  Training scenarios can be set to challenge either new recruits, or seasoned veterans.

Reliability

+  FIRETRAINER^® systems installed over 20 years ago for the U.S. Navy are still in use today. 
+  Every FDNY firefighter since 1987 has trained on a Kidde FIRETRAINER^® system.

Unique Fire Simulations Possible

+  Attic fires
+  Hidden fires in dropped ceilings or cocklofts
+  Electrical panel fires
+  High-rise building fires
+  Bilge fires below deck grating
+  Pressurized pipe leak fires
+  Flashover-Rollover

Wide Range of Fuel Choices

LPG Propane
Clean burning. Produces good flame characteristics for indoor and outdoor fires.  Propane is stored in an on-site tank.  Liquid or vapor propane can be burned for outdoor fires.  Due to the high expansion rate of liquid propane, indoor fires use propane vapor only. 

Natural Gas
Clean burning.  Best for indoor fire simulations.  On-demand  availability is convenient… does not require a propane tank or scheduling refills.  Getting natural gas to work well in fire training simulators requires Kidde's specialist knowledge.  Kidde has successfully installed 10 times the number of natural gas-fueled fire simulators supplied by others!

Butane
Clean burning.  Similar to propane in its flame characteristics.   Typically available in warmer climates.  Stored on-site in a tank. 

Kerosene
Produces good flame characteristics, but more soot than propane, natural gas, or butane fires.  For safety, Kidde only offers kerosene on outdoor fires.  Kerosene is stored in an on-site tank.  Typically requires water effluent to be collected and processed.  However, due to Kidde’s unique control system and fuel atomization nozzles, the amount of soot and residual fuel is greatly reduced.  More than 98% of fuel is burned during fire training exercises using Kidde’s kerosene trainers.

“Dual Fueled”
Kidde also offers systems that can burn both kerosene or clean burning propane/butane.  Typically used for aircraft or industrial fire simulations.

Longer Burn Building Life

+  Class-A burn buildings often “wear out” from years of over-exposure to high temperatures.
+  Kidde’s gas-fueled FIRETRAINER^® simulators burn a regulated quantity of fuel each time, and
    are guarded by a computer-controlled, temperature monitoring system with an integral ventilation
    fan.

    Results…  Your investment in a burn building will last longer.
+  Costly burn building overhaul and repair to thermal lining system can be avoided!