Innovative Fire Extinguishing Technology

Okay, welcome back. One tech company now has a new way to

fight fires.

It's with sound waves. The Ohio-based firm is using low frequency

tones to disrupt the air molecules around flames,

starving the fire of oxygen without a drop of water, without any messy

chemicals. Max Gordon reports live from Santa

Barbara, California with the details.

Tell us what you got, Max.

Hey, Jillian. Well, fire needs three things.

It needs oxygen, it needs heat, and it needs fuel, and Sonic

Fire Tech has developed this device, kind of looks like something out of the

Ghostbusters, that shoots sound waves at a

fire, and it oscillates the oxygen molecules

and essentially

starves the fire of oxygen. So what we're going to do is we're

going to light this gasoline here on fire. Let's do it.

And you're gonna see how it's done.

Just like that, so quick it almost seems like magic.

Take a listen.

There's a little skeptic in me every time I light a fire. Is it gonna work?

But it does, and that's where the physics has taken

hold.

It's magic 'cause you can't see it, but we are oscillating oxygen at a

rate fuel can't, fire can't exist, and that's breaking

that chemical reaction,

and that's what we're seeing.

Those at Sonic Fire Tech say the sound waves have not been found to be

harmful to either people or pets, and Sonic Fire Tech wants to install

systems using this technology in homes as an alternative to fire

sprinklers. They hope that using sound to extinguish fires can

be less destructive

than sprinklers, which can cause water damage

when they go off.

And Sonic Fire Tech says that their first system in a

home will be installed in Altadena, in an area that was destroyed by

the Eaton Fire. When it comes to cost, they say that it's comparable

to a home sprinkler system. Back to you.