CAR FIRE BLANKET

FIRE BLANKET FOR PETROL AND DIESEL CARS

Texfire’s car fire blankets are designed to extinguish fires in motor, gas or diesel vehicles indistinctly. Tailored with a fiberglass fabric recovered with a polymer on both sides. It incorporates 6 grips, dark in color on the right side and light in color on the left side, to facilitate placement. Car fire blankets are delivered inside a textile rucksack to ease its transportation and storage.

With a surface of 6x9 m (54 m2), this blanket allows to cover most cars in case of a fire, even SUVs and 4x4. For its correct placement and because of safety measures, in case of fire the intervention of at least 2 people is recommended. The car fire blanket weighs approximately 28 kg.

The efficiency of car fire blankets resides on its ability to extinguish a fire in only a few minutes, through the fire suffocation way. The use of this fire blanket has several advantages in relation to other fire systems to extinguish flames in a car, like powder fire extinguishers or water hoses:

• It is not necessary to have a water source or deposit nearby.
• Only 2 people are needed to extinguish a car on flames.
• Can be stored easily, it does not expire.
• Any kind of anti-fire training is not needed.
• It avoids that fire spreads to vehicles nearby or surrounding installations.
• It contains the toxic smokes derived from combustion.
• It contains the opaque smokes, which allows a perfect vision and situation control.
• It avoids that installations, like underground parking lots, are damaged with smoke and other incandescent particles in suspension.
• It avoids that the remains of the fire are filtered in the sewage, as it happens with water use.
• It does not leave any trace of particles in suspension or placed over surfaces as it happens with fire extinguishers.
• It can be used close to electrical panels and other installations sensible to water.
• It largely limits damages caused by the accident.
• It eases the firefighter’s performance both in resources and in time.

The features and particularities of a fire blanket for cars turn it into an interesting safety element to:

• Outdoor parking lots.
• Underground parking lots.
• Commercial centers.
• Hotel’s parking lots.
• Car rental companies.
• Mechanical workshops.
• Firefighters.
• Ferries.
• Port services.
• Car dealerships.
• Charging stations.
• Gas stations.
• Insurance companies.