One of the most terrifying situations is to find yourself trapped on the top levels of a building with loose fire raging on the below floors. You can’t use the elevator as it is too risky that the electric supply might be cut off and you’ll be trapped inside and baked as if in an oven. You take the stairs only to find that the fire has already made its way there and you have no chance of jumping through it. The smoke coming from below floors would always rise to the top, blocking oxygen from those floors and can suffocate you. The fire is likely to weaken the concrete and the building would soon cave in. These are some of the problems faced by the people who get trapped and can’t find a way out of a burning building.

Fire fighting is only best suited for the people trained for it. Untrained people, especially children can do nothing but wait for someone to come to their aid. Reaching the spot in time and removing everyone unharmed from the building is what the fire fighting authorities strive for but it is not always possible. Hence there is no reason to rule out the need for CO2 & marine CO2 systems even in buildings. It is no hidden fact that CO2 is one of the greatest enemies of oxygen. Wherever it is present, oxygen is removed or the supply of oxygen is immediately cut off. Hence it is one of the best agents to cut off the supply of oxygen to fire.

Usually CO2 when dispensed from its cylinder in case of fire is in the form of foam. The reason of making it dense is to make sure that once it is thrown on fire, it stays there and as long as it remains, fire cannot come to that area again. This foam is a good thing because it makes a path for the people to walk on and exit the building. Although it will clearly make their clothes and shoes muddy from the foam once they step on it, but its presence will deter fire from coming back on that path again.

No matter how many cylinders you have installed to fight fire with CO2, an empty cylinder adds insult to injury. It is extremely vital to keep a check on the cylinders with the ultrasonic liquid level indicator to make sure the cylinders are filled to the maximum. Using the device, the pressure within the cylinders can also be monitored to know the gas hasn’t expired yet.