Tyndall Testing Firefighting Technology

May 23, 2007 Florida - Jamie Gardner looked like he was watering his flowers Tuesday instead of pushing back a wall of flaming jet fuel. Gardner, a firefighter tech with the Air Force Research Lab at Tyndall Air Force Base, used a high-pressure jet of water and foam from a handheld nozzle to douse a 3,500-square-foot fire in 50 seconds. The fire was one of several demonstrations put on at the base for Federal Aviation Administration officials and area fire chiefs. "It was like using a pressure washer ...