The inspiration behind the FireWatch program spanned over fifteen years. In response to Countless Flammable Bulk Liquid terminal consultations, commissionings, and tests found a major deficiency in 90% of the locations.
- Those facilities may have either fixed, semi-fixed, or no fire protection.
- They are unable to produce foam fire-fighting capabilities to supply supplemental hose streams as low as 50 gpm each and to a maximum of 150 gpm or for incidental flammable liquid spill control.
- They depend on local fire jurisdictions that, in an equal number of cases, had no equipment for foam production.