HEN Blade 160: Suppression & Search in a Post-Flashover Hallway and Bedroom Fire

This live-fire demonstration highlights the HEN Blade 160 (160 GPM @ 50 PSI) in a post-flashover hallway and bedroom fire, emphasizing its ability to create safer, more survivable conditions for both suppression and search operations. The wide Blade stream spans the full width of the hallway, ensuring rapid cooling, superior fire coverage, and enhanced firefighter access.

Key Tactical Insights:
✅ Corridor-Wide Suppression: The wide Blade stream effectively cools all surfaces—walls, ceiling, and floor—allowing safer movement down the hallway.
✅ Dead-End Vent Profile & Search Safety: Between 2:40–2:54, observe how the Blade pattern enhances visibility, creates a more stable environment, and provides good air entrainment, gas contraction, and effective lift, making search operations in low-ventilation areas safer and more efficient.
✅ Variable Ventilation Conditions: Bedroom #2 had no vent in front of the push, requiring a wide Blade attack, while simulated VES members in Bedroom #3 opened their door ahead of the suppression team, with a window venting behind them—demonstrating how the Blade performs in different airflow and fire behavior scenarios.

This demonstration reinforces how HEN’s engineered nozzle technology optimizes fire attack, firefighter survivability, and search conditions—even in post-flashover environments.

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