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Water-spraying tower is a mobile forest-fire-fighting sprinkler system

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Nov 16, 2024

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A bird's-eye view of a RainStream tower – the technology is intended to bridge the gap between ground-based firefighters and aircraft-supported wildfire suppression

When a raging forest fire is approaching a community, a good rainfall greatly reduces the chances of the flames actually reaching the buildings. But if rain isn’t in the forecast … well, that’s where the RainStream tower is designed to come in.

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Tags: Firefighting, Forest

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