Okay, step back in time two years ago ...........
A fire breaks out in a suburban home in Ohio. Mom and Junior run outside and call 911 on a cell phone. Family cat escapes with no harm. Fire department arrives and finds house mostly aflame, but manages to extinguish fire before it completely devours house.
And then the fire marshal shows up to do his inspection.
He walks through the charred house and most of the interior is blackened. But then he spots an open bag of kitty litter in the kitchen, wedged between the blackened wall and the scorched fridge. It's not charred at all. It survived beautifully intact.
He wants to know why.
A lab report indicates that particular formulation of kitty litter is such an ideal flame retardant that even the paper bag holding the litter --saturated with the powdered litter-- would not burn.
The properties of the litter make for a unique combination of portability, long shelf-life, and very low weight. And thus a new tool in the fighting of fires comes to the forefront.
http://www.allgraphics123.com/ag/01/6480/6480.jpg
A fire breaks out in a suburban home in Ohio. Mom and Junior run outside and call 911 on a cell phone. Family cat escapes with no harm. Fire department arrives and finds house mostly aflame, but manages to extinguish fire before it completely devours house.
And then the fire marshal shows up to do his inspection.
He walks through the charred house and most of the interior is blackened. But then he spots an open bag of kitty litter in the kitchen, wedged between the blackened wall and the scorched fridge. It's not charred at all. It survived beautifully intact.
He wants to know why.
A lab report indicates that particular formulation of kitty litter is such an ideal flame retardant that even the paper bag holding the litter --saturated with the powdered litter-- would not burn.
The properties of the litter make for a unique combination of portability, long shelf-life, and very low weight. And thus a new tool in the fighting of fires comes to the forefront.
http://www.allgraphics123.com/ag/01/6480/6480.jpg
