FireTrainer^® simulators offer live fire training advantages.

Minimal Environmental Impact

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Gas-fueled simulators allow live burn training, despite being in populated areas.
Simulators are fueled by clean-burning propane, natural gas or butane.
KFT 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 fire fighting run-off water.
Simulated smoke dissipates rapidly once beyond the burn building.

Hot stuff…

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.

RED = greater than 900°F (480°C)
ORANGE = greater than 700°F (370°C)

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.

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.”

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.

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 KFT FireTrainer^® system.

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 KFT's specialist knowledge.
KFT has successfully installed 10 times the number of natural gas-fueled fire simulators supplied by others!

Butane

Kerosene

Produces good flame characteristics, but more soot than propane, natural gas, or butane fires.
For safety, KFT 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 KFT’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 KFT’s kerosene trainers.

“Dual Fueled”

KFT also offers systems that can burn both kerosene or clean burning propane/butane.
Typically used for aircraft or industrial fire simulations.

Class-A burn buildings often “wear out” from years of over-exposure to high temperatures.
KFT’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.

Costly burn building overhaul and repair to thermal lining system can be avoided!