Exposing Fire Service Hose in a Flashover Chamber: Report of Test
FSRI
At the request of the Fire Department City of New York (FDNY), UL FSRI instrumented and
documented a series of 12 thermal exposure hose experiments that were conducted in the burn
compartment of an FDNY flashover simulator. The main objective of the experiments was to observe
the performance of fire hoses exposed to the heat flux from flaming hot gas layer conditions
above the hose.