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For decades the fire service has answered bigger fires with one move: more water. Bigger lines, bigger turrets, bigger flows. Modern fires have outgrown that equation.
In wind driven wildfires, traditional fog streams erode before they reach the flame front. Crews end up battling the nozzle instead of the fire.
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Jason Floyd spent 25 years in the fire service. Now he works with HEN Technologies, the company behind the adjustable smoothbore nozzle.
The design started when the founder's wife evacuated her family alone from a California wildfire and challenged him to solve the problem. He was an industry outsider, so he broke the fire stream down to its science.
The result merges the best of smoothbore and fog: large wind resistant droplets with an adjustable pattern. The company is now growing from nozzles into a connected system of telemetry, hydraulics, and AI informed command.
Topics covered:
- The origin story: a wildfire evacuation and an industry outsider
- Superior fluidics in plain language
- Merging 60 years of smoothbore and fog into one nozzle
- Pre-distributed water: laser beam versus paintbrush
- Large space fires and master stream limitations
- Rethinking brush fire turrets for mega fires
- The Maui study and wind resistant streams
- UL research: put water in the right place
- Nozzle reaction, fatigue, and one firefighter hand lines
- From HEN Nozzles to HEN Technologies: telemetry, AI, and command
So take a listen to hear what he has to share.
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