Latest firefighting equipment is a flame-extinguishing pistol (1948)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Testers shoot a pistol that fires a dense cloud of powder which smothers fire by eliminating oxygen Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Our Roving Camera Reports UNKNOWN: EXT FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT. Man with pistol filled with powder demonstrates the new fire-fighting equipment, seen firing pistol at flaming hut flames extinguished. FIRES Testing out new fire-fighting equipment. Man seen firing powder from pistol at flaming hut. Flames extinguished Inventions development, advancement, safety, fire extinguisher, experimental Background: Testers shoot a pistol that fires a dense cloud of powder which smothers fire by eliminating oxygen FILM ID: VLVABXHF4DEA64CQABTOUPU91OMF7 To license this film, visit Archive: Reuters Archive managed by: British Pathé